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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