Drinking Age Quotes:

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

- Kinky Friedman

topic: Drinking, Iraq, Age, Drinking Age

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins

topic: Funny, Birthday, Wine, Wine And Age, Wine And Life

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

- Michael Broadbent

source: Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Drinking, Wine, Good Company, Vineyards, Best Wine

The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.

- Pete Coors

source: Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.

topic: Drinking, Giving, Support, Drinking Age

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

- Doug Stanhope

topic: Drinking, People, Age, Drinking Age

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Wine, Tolerance, Culinary, Daily Living, Vineyards

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

- Mojo Nixon

topic: Drinking, Men, Thinking, Drinking Age

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Birthday, Drinking, Wine, Vineyards, Oil And Vinegar

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

topic: Wine, Meals, Sun, Italian Proverb, Best Wine

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

- C. E. M. Joad

topic: Birthday, Wine, Turning 50, Oil And Vinegar, Best Wine

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Yummy, Delicious Food

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

- Graham Greene

topic: Truth, Lying, Wine, Best Wine, Liquor Funny

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Wine, Age, Aging, Old Wine, Wine And Age

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Drinking, Wine, Envy, Sparkling, Wine And Age

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

- Pete Coors

source: "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.

topic: Drinking, Age, Colorado, Drinking Age

If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the other thing," what you would say is, "Let's give them all the drugs they want." In a lot of states, something very much like that happened. They lowered the drinking age to eighteen and said, "Get juiced."

- Stephen King

source: High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

topic: Real, Drinking, Giving, Drinking Age