Sayings and Quotes

Alcohol Quotes and Sayings

Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca

Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker.
Ogden Nash

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

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Author Unknown

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell

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

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

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.
Scottish Proverb

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

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

Never cry over spilt milk. It could’ve been whiskey.
Pappy Maverick

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

I’m going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.
Phil Harris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.
Author Unknown

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
Johann Christoph

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

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

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

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside, “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside.
Author Unknown

Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
Author Unknown

I like liquor – its taste and its effects – and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
Thomas Jackson

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

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

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley

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

Remember: * I* before *E*, except in Budweiser.
Author Unknown

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

I’ll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody.
M.A.S.H, Hawkeye

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

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

Everybody should believe in something; I believe I’ll have ãnother drink.
The Quotes Junction

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

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.
Author Unknown

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
Galileo

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.
Author Unknown

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.
Mark Twain

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

Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Life’s a waste of time, time’s a waste of life so let’s all get wasted and have the time of our life.
Author Unknown

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

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

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?
Author Unknown

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

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
P.J. O’Rourke

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.
Author Unknown

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
William Shakespeare

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