Drinkers Quotes

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A torch-light procession marching down your throat.

~ John L. O'sullivan

First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

For when the wine is in the wit is out.

~ Thomas Becon

He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

~ John Barrymore

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

~ Old Saying

I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

~ William Butler Yeats

I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.

~ George Gobel

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

~ Old Saying

What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.

~ Kenneth Tynan

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

~ Dean Martin

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

~ Thomas Stonewall Jackson

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made and if it is then approved they act on it if not they set it aside. Sometimes however they are sober at their first deliberations but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

~ Herodotus

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