Drinking is the act of taking liquid in through your mouth. The most famous drinking quotes help you to see the funny side of life and make you rethink. Some of them are humorous, others are thought-provoking.
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Famous Drinking Quotes
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. – Frank Sinatra
To alcohol! The cause of – and solution to – all of life’s problems. – Homer Simpson
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. – Ernest Hemingway
The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober. – William Butler Yeats
All is fair in love and beer. – Kurt Paradis
I drink to make other people more interesting. – Ernest Hemingway
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol. – Anonymous
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. – Benjamin Franklin
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. – W.C. Fields
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. – Ernest Hemingway
A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk’, to which I replied ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly. – Winston Churchill
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. – Henny Youngman
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy. – Frank Sinatra
A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts. – Steve Fergosi
Next to music, beer was best. – Carson McCullers
24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not. – H.L. Mencken
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, and in water there is bacteria. – Benjamin Franklin
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. – George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol removes inhibitions – like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: “Now bring on that damn cat! – Eleanor Early
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. – Johnny Carson
Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time. – Catherine Zandonella
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now. – Charles Bukowski
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. – Finley Peter Dunne
I’m on a whisky diet. I’ve lost three days already. – Tommy Cooper
When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let’s all get drunk and go to heaven! – Brian O’Rourke
Alcohol is a way of life, alcohol is my way of life, and I aim to keep it. – Homer Simpson
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. – Edgar Allan Poe
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? – W.C. Fields
If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt. – Dean Martin
To some it’s a six-pack. To me it’s a Support Group. – Leo Durocher
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. – Winston Churchill
If God had intended us to drink beer, he would have given us stomachs. – David Daye
Without question the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. – Dave Barry
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. – Compton Mackenzie
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. – W.C. Fields
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
― Charles Bukowski
I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. – Rodney Dangerfield
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink, I feel shame! Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this wine, they might be out of work, and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver – Jack Handey
He that drinks fast, pays slow. – Benjamin Franklin
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. – Humphrey Bogart
Whisky is liquid sunshine. – George Bernard Shaw
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. – Dave Barry
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. – Jim Butcher
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. – Oscar Wilde
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. – Charles Bukowski
He was a wise man who invented beer. – Plato
Remember ‘I’ before ‘E’, except in Budweiser. – Professor Irwin Corey
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. – Dean Martin
There are two kinds of people I don’t trust: people who don’t drink and people who collect stickers. – Chelsea Handler
And God said, “Let there be vodka!” And He saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let there be light!” And then He said, “Whoa – too much light.
We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort, it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well-made cocktail. – David Sedaris
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer. – Abraham Lincoln
A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her. – W.C. Fields
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. – W.C. Fields
I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike. – Sylvia Plath
Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers. – Cliff Clavin
Short Drinking Quotes
Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host. – Dorothy Parker
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. – Amrose Bierce
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. – Frank Sinatra
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. – Dave Barry
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. – Benjamin Franklin
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. – Richard Braunstein
Scotch: Because one doesn’t solve the world’s problems over white wine. – Anonymous
Here’s to alcohol, the rose-colored glasses of life. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish. – Anne Lamott
Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer. – Al Bundy
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar. – Drew Carey
I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him; I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around. – Chelsea Handler
My friends speak of my drinking…. but they know not of my thirst.
Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer. – W.C. Fields
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. – Alex Levin
Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer. – W.C. Fields
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike. – Sylvia Plath
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. – Alex Levin
Here’s to alcohol, the cause of — and solution to — all life’s problems. – Homer Simpson
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. – Dorothy Parker
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. – Oscar Wilde
I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy. – Dean Martin
There are two kinds of people I don’t trust: people who don’t drink and people who collect stickers. – Chelsea Handler
The problem with the designated driver program, it’s not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house. – Jeff Foxworthy
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it’s there, because it can’t hurt, and because what difference does it make? – Toni Morrison
Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her. – W.C. Fields
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it. – Mark Twain
If I had to live my life over, I’d live over a saloon. – W.C. Fields
We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail. – David Sedaris, Naked
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. –Pittacus Lore
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. – G.K. Chesterton
Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. – Steve Martin
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it. – Lewis Grizzard
All right, brain. You don’t like me, and I don’t like you, but let’s just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer. – Homer Simpson
A lady came up to me one day and said, “Sir! You are drunk,” to which I replied, “I am drunk today, madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober, but you will still be ugly. – Winston Churchill
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. – Bette Davis
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. – Ernest Hemingway
