Alcohol Quotes, Sayings about Drinking

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat – Alex Levine.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy – Benjamin Franklin.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide – Bertrand Russell.

I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not – Brendan Behan.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction – Bob Marley.

If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt – Dean Martin.

I drink only to make my friends seem interesting – Don Marquis.

Alcohol can ruin your life and the lives of others, so why even take one drink? – Duane Alan Hahn.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you – Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.

I’d prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy – Frank Nicholson.

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.

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

Wine is sunlight, held together by water – Galileo.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life – George Bernard Shaw.

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars – the rest I just squandered – George Best.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life – George Best.

What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking – George Gordon.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic’s best friend – Gerard Way.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune – Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Water is the only drink for a wise man – Henry David Thoreau.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading – Henny Youngman.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle – Henny Youngman.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little – Herman “Jackrabbit” Smith-Johannsen.

Beer is the cause and solution to all of life’s problems – Homer Simpson.

Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die – Homer Simpson.

Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems – Homer Simpson.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers – Horace.

We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good – Horace Hutchinson.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough – James Thurber.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living – Jean Kerr.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk – John Marcellus Huston.

Alcoholism isn’t a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play – Joyce Rebeta-Burditt.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third – Knute Rockne.

One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time – Lady Astor.

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness – or so good as drink – Lord Chesterton.

Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God – Marguerite Duras.

Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains – Mary Pettibone Poole.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol – Mignon McLaughlin.

I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop – Noel Coward.

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism – Norman Brenner.

Candy Is dandy, But liquor Is quicker – Ogden Nash.

I envy people who drink – at least they know what to blame everything on – Oscar Levant.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes – Oscar Wilde.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion – Ovid.

Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down – Phyllis Diller.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it – Raymond Chandler.

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beer belly – Rita Rudner.

Why don’t you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini? – Robert Benchley.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss – Robert Heinlein.

Wine is bottled poetry – Robert Louis Stevenson.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost – Samuel Johnson.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought – Samuel Johnson.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness – Seneca.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness – Sir Walter Scott.

When the wine is in, the wit is out – Thomas Becon.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea – Thomas Fuller.

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her – W.C. Fields.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink – W.H. Davies.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk – Winston Churchill.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me – Winston Churchill.

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