Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink,for fellows whom it hurts to think.
~ A.e. Housman
He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.
~ Alex Shakar
On the other side of the ledger stood the fact that fotitude was useless against it (liquor). Even the mightiest potsman, a paladin who could match tankards with a whole alehouse of swag-bellies Falstaffs and outquaff the parcel of them, would see his length measured upon the floor by less liquid than it would take to fill his hat.
~ David Wondrich
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.
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.
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.
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.
