Drink Quotes

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

~ Bertrand Russell

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

~ Guiseppe Garibaldi

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.

~ John Erskine

Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

~ Hugh Hood

Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.

~ Samuel Johnson

Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.

~ Samuel Johnson

I drink to make other people interesting.

~ George Jean Nathan

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

~ Samuel Johnson

The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.

~ Jewish Proverb

Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.

~ Robert C. Edwards

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

~ A. E. Housman

A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.

~ Bible

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

~ George Herbert

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

~ Sean O'faolain

Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease her husband leaves her in nine out often cases when a man contracts it his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.

~ Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald

Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.

~ Randle Cotgrave

We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee water milk soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing I will make mine whisky.

~ W. C. Fields

It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

~ James Thurber

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

~ Seneca

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

~ François Rabelais

He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.

~ William Lyon Mackenzie

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

~ Plato

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.

~ W. C. Fields

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

~ Brendan Behan

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

~ Humphrey Bogart

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

~ Oscar Levant

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

~ Anonymous

They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

~ Jay Leno

Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.

~ Anonymous

According to my doctor it's okay to drink like a fish - as long as I drink what the fish drinks.

~ Anonymous

I find the more I drink the more interesting others become.

~ Tom Ralphs

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

~ Dean Martin

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.

~ W. C. Fields

Everybody should believe in something I believe I'll have another drink.

~ Anonymous

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

~ Robert Benchley

I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.

~ Joe E. Lewis

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

~ Alvan L. Barach

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

~ Dean Martin

Some people make spectacles of themselves with a couple of glasses.

~ Anonymous

Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

~ Winston Churchill