Quotes and Sayings

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
- Matt Groening

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
- Ovid

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepted thy works.
- Bible

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.
- Raymond Chandler

Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
- Samuel Johnson

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.
Henry Aldrich

There are better things in life than alcohol, but alcohol makes up for not having them.
- Terry Pratchett

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
- Bob Marley

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
- Bertrand Russell

It pays to get drunk with the best people.
- Joe E. Lewis

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
- P.J. O’Rourke

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
- Thomas Jackson

What’s drinking?
A mere pause from thinking!
- George Gordon

It was a woman who drove me to drink and I never got the chance to thank her.
- W.C. Fields

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
- Seneca

Never cry over spilt milk. It could’ve been whiskey.
- “Pappy” Maverick