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Drink, Drinking and Drinkers QuotesFamous Drink, Drinking and Drinkers quotes by popular authors such as Samuel Johnson, Bertrand Russell, Epictetus, John Fletcher, Thomas Jefferson and others.
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[highlight-text]It's a long time between drinks.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]For when the wine is in the wit is out.
Thomas Becon
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[highlight-text]I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan
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[highlight-text]In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)
Pliny the Elder
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[highlight-text]Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Guiseppe Garibaldi
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[highlight-text]Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.
Randle Cotgrave
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[highlight-text]They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
Old Saying
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[highlight-text]Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca
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[highlight-text]The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart
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[highlight-text]There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
Francois Rabelais
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[highlight-text]Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.
Robert C. Edwards
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[highlight-text]A torch-light procession marching down your throat.
John L. O'Sullivan
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[highlight-text]An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.
Sean O'Faolain
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[highlight-text]He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.
Old Saying
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[highlight-text]I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.
Valerius Maximus
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[highlight-text]I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.
George Gobel
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[highlight-text]I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.
Jewish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. Housman
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[highlight-text]Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.
Kenneth Tynan
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[highlight-text]Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Drink today and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
John Fletcher
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[highlight-text]He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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[highlight-text]The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats
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[highlight-text]A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.
Bible
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[highlight-text]One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
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[highlight-text]An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.
Alvan L. Barach
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[highlight-text]There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields
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[highlight-text]I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
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[highlight-text]Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.
Omar Khayyam
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[highlight-text]He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.
William Lyon Mackenzie
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[highlight-text]It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
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[highlight-text]Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Brendan Behan
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
William Penn
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]My manager saw me drinking backstage and he said 'Mitch, don't use liquor as a crutch.' I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely Sorrys up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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