Quotes on alcohol
Holywater clouds my thinking, sinking low now, keep on drinking...
Author, Unknown
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Russell, Bertrand
You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.
Unknown, Author
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkeness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says that Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by Poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
"Why yesh offisher I've been drinking but thatsh wash owersh ago."
Author, Unknown
The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
Whitehorn, Katherine
When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Author, Unknown
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle.
Hemingway, Ernest
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Churchill, Winston
I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.
Harris, Phil
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Greene, Henry Graham
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
Galilei, Galileo
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von
I like liquor - its taste and its effects, and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
Jackson, Thomas
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Quincey, Thomas de
Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems
Lincoln, Abraham
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.
Mencken, H.L.
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.
Chandler, Raymond
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Leacock, Stephen