Drinking Quotes
Drinking Quotes
Responsible Drinking? Now that’s an Oxymoron.
Aaron Howard
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers
The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don’t drink in moderation.
Artie Lange
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
Ben Jonson
He that drinks fast, pays slow.
Benjamin Franklin
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Benjamin Franklin
There cannot be good living where there is no good drinking.
Benjamin Franklin
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
Bette Davis
Is the glass half full or half empty? It depends on whether you’re pouring or drinking.
Bill Cosby
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Catherine Helen Spence
You can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.
Celia Rivenbark
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day.
Charles Bukowski
If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
Charles Bukowski
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
Charlie Chaplin
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Desi Arnaz
Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.
Emile Peynaud
That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.
Erich Maria Remarque
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
Drinking is a way of ending the day.
Ernest Hemingway
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Ernest Hemingway
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I feel bad 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
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
Frantois Rabelais
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
G.K. Chesterton
What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
George Gordon
I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan
To good eating belongs good drinking.
German Proverb
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Drinking makes the mind go sober.
Heruba
Good people drink good beer.
Hunter S. Thompson
It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
Ian Fleming
Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
Jack Kerouac
Drinking coffee is like drinking an inverse yawn. I prefer mine with two spoonfuls of ?I?m listening.?
Jarod Kintz
It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Jimmy Breslin
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Joe E Ellis
It’s not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
John Selden
I must entreat you to be scrupulous in the use of strong liquors. One night’s drunkenness may defeat the labours of forty days well employed.
Johnson
Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
Knute Rockne
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one’s present or future thirst, the excellence of the wine, or any other reason.
Latin Proverb
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
Lord Byron
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Mark Twain
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Mark Twain
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
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
It’s solitary drinking that makes drunkards.
Nathanael West
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
Oscar Wilde
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
Richard Braunstein
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it’s compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley
My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.
Rodney Dangerfield
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.
Scottish Proverb
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca
A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.
Steve Fergosi
The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
Terry Goodkind
When the wine is in, the wit is out.
Thomas Becon
Drink washes off the daub and discovers the man.
Thomas Fuller
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.
Thomas Jefferson
BEER doesn’t make you fat, It makes you lean… against bars, tables, chairs, walls…
unknown
I know I should give up drinking; but I am not a quitter.
unknown
If drinking is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you’re probably an alcoholic.
unknown
You cant buy HAPPINESS, but you can buy BEER. And that’s pretty much the same thing!
unknown
I’ve never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.
Vicki Lesage
I don’t drink anymore, on the other hand I don’t drink any less either.
W.C. Fields
The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.
William Butler Yeats
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
William Faulkner
I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
William Shakespeare
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
Winston Churchill
A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk’, to which I replied ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
Winston S. Churchill