Drinking Quotes And Sayings

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“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

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

“We drink [to] one another’s health and spoil our own.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“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. Lewis

“I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.”
– Joe E. Lewis

“Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I’m thirsty, not dirty.”
– Joe E. Lewis

“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
– Johann Christoph Friedrich

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

“Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord.”
– John R. Kemble

“If four or five guys tell you that you’re drunk, even though you know you haven’t had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.”
– Joseph Schenck

“Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.”
– Kin Hubbard

“All is fair in love and beer.”
– Kurt Paradis

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

“Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold – in these are sunk – The hopes of all men and of every nation” 
– Lord Byron

“No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness – or so good as drink.”
– Lord Chesterton

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
– Louis Pasteur

“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

“Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.”
– N.F. Simpson

“I’m not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.”
– Noel Coward

“I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my Mum. I know I’ve got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.”
– Noel Gallagher

“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
– Ogden Nash

“I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.”
– Oscar Levant

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Zen martini:  A martini with no vermouth at all.  And no gin, either.”
– P.J. O’Rourke

“Drink to me.”
– Pablo Picasso

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

“Can I tell you what’s messed up about James Bond? Shaken not stirred will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth, the reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it.”
– President Josiah Bartlett

“I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.”
– Raymond Chandler

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