Quotes about Drinking

"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
-Frank Sinatra

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."
-Oscar Wilde

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
-Oscar Wilde

"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age."
-William Cobbett

"The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair."
-Abraham Cowley

"Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy."
-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it."
-Edward Koch

"And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man."
-A. E. Housman

"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony."
-Robert Benchley

"The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking."
-Terry Goodkind

"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."
-Nancy Astor

"Responsible Drinking? Now that's an Oxymoron."
-Aaron Howard

"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place."
-Jimmy Breslin

"It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him."
-W. Somerset Maugham

"It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine."
-Heraclitus

"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

"Many contemporary authors drink more than they write."
-Maxim Gorky

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt."
-Dean Martin

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
-Fran Lebowitz

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."
-Homer

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
-Henny Youngman

"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
-Martin Mull

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."
-W. C. Fields

"I cannot eat but little meat - My stomach is not good; but sure I think that I can drink - with him that wears a hood."
-John Still

"We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good."
-Bob Dole

"I drink no more than a sponge."
-Francois Rabelais

"This is to show kids that they can have a good time without drinking."
-Patricia Schultz