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I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. ~John Marcellus Huston
If you must drink and drive, drink Pepsi. ~Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker
The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity. ~Author Unknown
If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic. ~Author Unknown
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
O God, that men
should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away
their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance
revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
~William Shakespeare, Othello [II, 3, Cassio]
First, you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ~Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Tea is so tame. A cocktail is lots more naughty. ~Richard Florance, "It: The Usual Play with an Unusual Ending," in The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, December 1915
Stay busy, get plenty of exercises, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little. ~Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen
To good eating belongs good drinking. ~German Proverb
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemingway
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. ~Jimmy Breslin
Our government land costs one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, and good whiskey two dollars a bottle. How many men die landless who during their lives have swallowed whole townships — trees and all? ~Author unknown, c.1878, quoted in Silas X. Floyd, Floyd's Flowers: or, Duty and Beauty for Colored Children, 1905
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. ~Raymond Chandler
A full Vine bending, like an Arch, and under
The blown God Bacchus, fitting on a Hogshead,
His Altar Beer: before that, a plump Vinter
Kneeling, and offering Incense to his Deity...
[A]nd then comes thy Song... The drinking Song...
Drink today and drown all Sorrow,
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
Best while you have it use your Breath,
There is no drinking after Death.
Wine works the Heart up, makes the Wit,
There is no Cure 'gainst Age but it...
Then let us swill, Boys, for our Health;
Who drinks well, loves the Commonwealth.
And he that will to Bed go sober,
Falls with the Leaf still in October.
~Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother; or, Rollo, a Tragedy, 1718 (Act II, Scene II)
Come, landlord, fill a flowing bowl, until it does run over;
To-night we all will merry be, to-morrow we'll get sober.
~Popular song, c.1700s
If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while. ~Joseph Schenck
Nevertheless, my uncle, Benjamin was not what you lightly term a drunkard, make no mistake about that. He was an epicurean who pushed philosophy to the point of intoxication,—that was all.... He loved wine, not for itself, but for that short-lived madness which it brings.... he maintained that a fasting man was a man still asleep; that intoxication would have been one of the greatest blessings of the Creator, if it had not injured the head, and that the only thing that made man superior to the brute was the faculty of getting drunk. ~Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel, 1843, translated from the French by Benjamin R. Tucker, 1890
Almost anything can be preserved in alcohol, except health, happiness, and money. ~Mary Wilson Little, Reveries of a Paragrapher, 1897
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ~W.C. Fields
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. ~Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856
Come, brothers, come, and drink with me,
See how the glass is beaming!
One bright unclouded hour will we
Spend in delicious dreaming!...
Fleeting is every earthly joy,
Wait not till time its bloom destroy,
But pluck the rose, nor pause to think,
But drink!
~Theodor Körner (1791–1813), "A Drinking Song," A Selection from the Poems and Dramatic Works of Theodor Körner, 1850, translated from the German by an unnamed female translator #happyhour
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. ~H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, Fourth Series, 1924
Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside. ~Author unknown
Here's to our guest —
Don't let him rest,
But keep his elbow bending.
'Tis time to drink —
Full time to think
Tomorrow — when you're mending.
~"To Our Guest," Toasts for the Times in Pictures and Rhymes by John William Sargent, 1904
The bad taste of alcohol is there to clue in your body that you shouldn't drink it. Luckily I don't fall for "appeal to nature" fallacies. ~Corey Mohler, @existentialcoms
Here's to a temperance supper,
With water in glasses tall,
And coffee and tea to end with—
And me not there at all.
~A Plate of Toasts, collected and passed along by Edwin Osgood Grover, 1916
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
What's drinking?
A mere pause from thinking!
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed
Rum is a flatterer, making fools and lunatics. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. ~W.C. Fields
Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes care away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not to indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of Mind"
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. ~Robert Benchley
I hate drunkenness; but I do not hate the drunkard. If any man should have our friendship it is the man who has failed to be a friend to himself. The fact is, the victim of strong drink often has all the virtues—including high intelligence and a tender, sympathetic heart—and yet when the Demon Drink clutches him, his will is paralyzed, and Satan is in the saddle.... The worst about strong drink has never been told. It cannot be told—it escapes the limitations of language. ~Elbert Hubbard, "Can You Afford It?", Cosmopolitan, May 1913
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. ~Graham Greene
I'll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, "Ceasefire," 1973
Here's to Champagne, the drink divine,
That makes us forget our troubles;
'Tis made of a dollar's worth of wine,
And three dollars' worth of bubbles.
~Waes Hael: A Collection of Toasts Crisp and Well Buttered, by Edithe Lea Chase and W.E.P. French, 1903
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ~Lady Astor
I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it. ~Stonewall Jackson
There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.... Prevention is better than cure. ~Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt, 1817
If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink:
Good wine—a friend—or being dry—
Or lest we should be by and by—
Or any other reason why.
~Père Sirmond, c.1595, translated by Henry Aldrich
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on. ~Oscar Levant
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness — or so good as drink. ~Lord Chesterton
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ~Oscar Wilde
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. ~Jean Kerr
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
Hard work, worry and whiskey are the friends of man. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good. ~Horace Hutchinson
Drink 'til the ground looks blue. ~Thomas Heywood, Philocothonista, 1635
T is for Temperance, Tremens, and Thirst.
You get the last two if you don't have the first.
~James Clarence Harvey, "A Drink Primer," Over the Nuts & Wine, 1906
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
It's like an angel crying on your tongue. ~The Mentalist, "My Bloody Valentine," written by Bruno Heller and Tom Szentgyorgyi, spoken by the character Patrick Jane, about alcohol
Drinking makes you happy with your body the way it is. ~Philip Rosenthal & Mike Royce, Everybody Loves Raymond, "Not So Fast" (season 9, episode 2), original air date 2004 September 27th, spoken by the character Robert Barone, based on the comedy of Ray Romano
...why so very, very merry?
Is it purity of conscience, or your one-and-seven sherry?
~W.S. Gilbert, "Ferdinando and Elvira," The "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense, 1860s
Sobriety is either the love of health, or an incapacity for debauch. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)
Here's to conscience. May it wake up to hear us toast it, and then go to sleep again. ~The Loving Cup: Original Toasts by Original Folks, edited by Wilbur D. Nesbit, 1909
