„In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.“

„I drink champagne on two occasions: when I'm in love, and when I'm not. “

—  Coco Chanel French fashion designer 1883 - 1971

„At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!“

—  Martha Graham American dancer and choreographer 1894 - 1991

Источник: Blood Memory

„These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain,
Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain“

—  Talib Kweli American rapper 1975

Africa Dream (track 8)
Albums, Reflection Eternal (2000)

„(Sylvia) The experienced traveler always flies first class so that when the engine falls off the plane, she’s drinking champagne.“

—  Nicole Hollander Cartoonist 1939

Источник: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 50

„He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.“

—  Terry Pratchett, книга Snuff

Источник: Snuff

„Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.“

—  Bill Cosby American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist 1937

„A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.“

—  Ludwig von Mises, книга Human Action

1963 edition, p. 680
Human Action (1949)

„When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean—that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses—that is science.“

—  Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904

„Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.“

—  Cathy Hopkins English writer 1953

„I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.

Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.“

—  Bill Cosby American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist 1937

„Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.“

—  Alexandre Dumas, книга The Three Musketeers

Athos, Ch. 48: A Family Affair.
The Three Musketeers (1844)

„A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.“

—  Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Источник: "An Essay on Criticism", (1709)

„The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.“

—  P. J. O'Rourke, книга Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

„A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.“

—  John Heywood English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs 1497 - 1580

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Вариант: A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.

„I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it!" -Michel Glass“

—  Rachel Caine American writer 1962

„Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.“

—  George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633

The Temple (1633), The Church Porch

„It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. “

—  Rodney Dangerfield American actor and comedian 1921 - 2004

„We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
Контексте: For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

„Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you."
-Liesel“

—  Markus Zusak, книга The Book Thief

Источник: The Book Thief