Some Alcohol Quotes

Some of my favorite quotes linked with alcohol:

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little. Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. Unknown

Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! William Shakespeare, Othello

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while. Joseph Schenck

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. Thomas Jackson

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. Jack Handey

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. W.C. Fields

6 Quotes about 60th Birthday

Quote about 60th Birthday 1: If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived. - Christy Moore

Quote about 60th Birthday 2: A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. - Arnold Bennett

Quote about 60th Birthday 3: I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy. - Sylvester Stallone

Quote about 60th Birthday 4: It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. - Ellen Glasgow

Quote about 60th Birthday 5: A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb

Quote about 60th Birthday 6: There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. - Sofia Loren

Attitude Quotes

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. - Edith Sitwell

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. - Lisa Alther

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. - William James

Quotes about boys

When told by James Naismith, the sport's inventor, that basketball couldn't be coached: Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves.

Phog Allen

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Aristotle

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.
John Aubrey

I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind.
Alan Beck

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Henry Ward Beecher

Sweet Quotes

The qualities that most attract a woman to a man Are usually the same ones she can't stand years later.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion. - Javan

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao-Tzu (Famous Chinese Quote)

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson

Girl Quotes

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. - ALbert Einstein

a girl shuld be two things classy and fabulous - Coco Chanel

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - JD Salinger

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance--but a good line is hard to resist. - Mae West

Big girls need big diamonds. - Elizabeth Taylor

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty - Gregory I

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot - Alan Beck

Quotes About Beauty

Beauty is not in the face;beauty is a light in the heart
~ Kahlil Gibran~
A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~Johann von Goeth ~
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
~Ivan Panin ~
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
~Hellen Keller ~
Personal beauty is a better introduction than any letter;...Diogenes Laertius. Circa 200 A.D.
"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum." ~Alexis Carrel ~
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
~Rumi ~
"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum." ~Alexis Carrel ~

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Quotes about Beauty

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. George W. Russell

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ALbert Einstein

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Buckminster Fuller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart. Hellen Keller

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Pierre Auguste Renoir

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. John Keats

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson

Some Famous CHinese Quotes

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
Jiang Qing

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Confucius

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
Lu Xun

Seeing it once is better than being told 100 times.
Chinese Proverb

Your neighbor's wife looks prettier than your own.
Chinese Proverb

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Some Health Quotes for You

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. - G.K. Chesterton

The greatest wealth is health. - Virgil

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. - Chinese Proverb