Drinking Quotes

The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?

Thomas Jefferson

I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.

Valerius Maximus

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.

All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bertrand Russell

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

There was an old hen And she had a wooden leg And every damned morning She laid another egg She was the best damned chicken On the whole damned farm - And another little drink Wouldn't do us any harm.

American Folksong

It's a long time between drinks.

Anonymous

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Epictetus

Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue until night till wine inflame them.

Bible

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.

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

Pliny the Elder

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover.Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time.

I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.

Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink,for fellows whom it hurts to think.

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.

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.

There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.

Anthony Bourdain

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

G.K. Chesterton

Right, what's there possibly to worry about?" she said. "Just some surgery in the garage with a drunk doctor."Little miss," said Doc, pointing a finger at Cass. "I'm drinking. I'm not drunk. There's a difference." He took another sip from his cup. "But in another ten minutes or so, that might change, so you should stop stalling.

Gregg Rosenblum

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

You speak of my drinking, yet you don't know my thirst

Scottish Proverb

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