best quotations about
Drinking |
and Alcohol
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Quotations
 | When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 12 likes |
 | Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 12 likes |
 | Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 10 likes |
 | Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 10 likes |
 | Write drunk, edit sober. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 10 likes |
 | I should have never switched from Scotch to Martinis. — Humphrey Bogart, 1899-1957, American actor (toward the end of his life) 8 likes |
 | They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people! — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 7 likes |
 | Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 7 likes |
 | I haven't drunk champagne for a long time. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer (his last words) 7 likes |
 | Never drink before sunset; Never drink more than 3 days in a row. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes |
| I drink to make other people more interesting. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 6 likes |
 | One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 6 likes |
 | A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 6 likes |
 | Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
| A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 5 likes |
 | We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 5 likes |
 | My brothers, come quickly, I am tasting the stars! — Dom Perignon, 1638-1715, French monk, inventor of champagne (when tasting the first sparkling champagne) 5 likes |
| Bacchus hath drowned more Men than Neptune. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 5 likes |
 | What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 5 likes |
 | I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 4 likes |
| All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 4 likes |
| I gave up drinking once– it was the worst afternoon of my entire life. — Humphrey Bogart, 1899-1957, American actor 4 likes |
 | Wine is the spiritual part of a meal. Meat and vegetables are just the material part. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 4 likes |
 | I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good. — Oscar Levant, 1906-1972, American pianist 3 likes |
| One more drink and I'd have been under the host. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 3 likes |
 | There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
| This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 3 likes |
 | He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 3 likes |
 | Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that. — R. D. Blackmore, 1825-1900, English novelist 3 likes |
 | There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935, 3 likes |
 | Civilization begins with distillation. — William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American writer, Nobel 1949 3 likes |
| There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
| Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
| What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
 | If merely “feeling good” could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 2 likes |
| Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 2 likes |
 | An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 2 likes |
 | What America needs now is a drink. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 2 likes |
 | First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 2 likes |
| Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | Don’t mix wine and women. |
 | Drunkenness is temporary suicide. |
| He only felt his loneliness after his third gin. |
 | How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini? |
 | Death: “THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT.” Albert: “Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.” |
| There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. |
 | The wine is bottled poetry. |
| The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind. |
 | Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to take care of it, a lucid poet to produce it, and a lover to drink it. |
 | I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. |
 | If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult. |
 | The stronger the drunkenness, the more bitter the wine. |
 | I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim, and now decency and good behavior weary me. |
 | I drink no more than a sponge. |
| Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. |
| Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. |
| Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. |
Latin Quotes
 | Nobody dances sober, unless maybe he is insane. Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanus. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 50 likes |
 | Truth in wine. In vino veritas. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 30 likes |
 | To drink is human, therefore let us drink. Bibere humanum est, ergo bibamus. 28 likes |
| In a sea of delightful wine, a mouse may only die. In mari meri miri mori muri necesse est. (Latin tongue twister) 23 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Drink 'til she's cute, but stop before the wedding. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 10 likes |
 | My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 7 likes |
 | I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. — Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, American columnist 6 likes |
 | It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 5 likes |
| A hangover is the wrath of grapes. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 3 likes |
 | My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 3 likes |
| When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 3 likes |
| My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Bacchus, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
| Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. |
| Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks. |
Ancient Greek
 | Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. Κάτοπτρον είδους χαλκός εστί, οίνος δε νοός. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 8 likes |
 | Being drunk is the same with being in love: it makes people warm and cheerful and loose. Τω μεθύειν το εράν όμοιόν εστι. Ποιεί γαρ θερμούς και ιλαρούς και διακεχυμένους. — Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian 6 likes |
 | When a man is exhausted, wine will build his strength. Ανδρί δε κεκμηώτι μένος μέγα οίνος αέξει. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad VI 6 likes |
 | What is in the heart of the sober is in the mouth of the drunk. Το εν τη καρδία του νήφοντος επί της γλώττης εστί του μεθύοντος. 4 likes |
 | Demosthenes when asked how he became successful in rhetoric, replied “By spending more on oil than on wine.” Δημοσθένης ερωτηθείς «πώς της ρητορικής περιγένου»; «Πλέον», έφη, «έλαιον οίνου δαπανήσας». — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 3 likes |
 | When men drink, they are rich, they are successful, they win, they are happy and they are helpful to their friends. Όταν πίνωσιν άνθρωποι τότε πλουτούσι, διαπράττουσι, νικώσιν δίκας, ευδαιμονούσιν, ωφελούσι τους φίλους. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Knights 3 likes |
| Quickly, bring me a flagon of wine, to soak my brain and say something smart. Αλλ’ εξένεγκέ μοι ταχέως οίνου χοά, τον νουν ιν’ άρδω και λέγω τι δεξιόν. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Youth is getting drunk without wine and old age is wine without getting drunk. 6 likes |
 | The bar owner loves the drunkard, but he wouldn’t give him his daughter in marriage. 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I never drink wi-i-ine. — from the film Dracula (1931) 7 likes |
 | I was in love with a beautiful blond once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for. — from the film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) 4 likes |
 | A martini. Shaken, not stirred. — from the film Goldfinger (1964) 4 likes |
 | Yes, I am afraid of death. But for a humble secret agent, it's an everyday thing, like whiskey. And I've been drinking all my life. — from the film Alphaville (1965) 4 likes |
