"Bally rot!" he protested. "Fawncy eating forty apples a day!"
If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad company by doing so."—Lord Chesterfield.
There is many a cup 'twixt the lip and the slip.—Judge.
One swallow doesn't make a summer, but it breaks a New Year's resolution.—Life.
DOCTOR (feeling Sandy's pulse in bed)—"What do you drink."
SANDY (with brightening face)—"Oh, I'm nae particular, doctor! Anything you've got with ye."