The Rat Pack Quotes

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. 

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Frank Sinatra

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Sammy Davis, Jr. 

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
Frank Sinatra

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Sammy Davis, Jr. 

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
Sammy Davis, Jr. 

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
Sammy Davis, Jr. 

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
Frank Sinatra

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin 

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
Frank Sinatra

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
Frank Sinatra

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.
Dean Martin 

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.
Joey Bishop 

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
Frank Sinatra

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr. 

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Joey Bishop 

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
Sammy Davis, Jr. 

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
Frank Sinatra

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
Frank Sinatra 

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Dean Martin