DRINKING QUOTES

"In water one sees one's own face;
But in wine one beholds the heart of another."
(French proverb)

"May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink.
But if you must lie, lie in each other's arms.
If you must steal, steal kisses.
If you must cheat, cheat death.
And if you must drink, drink with us, your friends."
(Anonymous)

"Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
And live every day as if it were your last."
(Anonymous)

"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."
(Henry Lawson)

"It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow
then to spend tonight like there's no money."
(P.J. O'Rourke)

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
(Ernest Hemingway)

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation
of denying himself a pleasure."
(Ambrose Bierce)

"Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol."
(Anonymous)

"The problem with the world is that
everyone is a few drinks behind."
(Humphrey Bogart)

"I would kill everyone in this room
for a drop of sweet, tasty beer."
(Homer Simpson)

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
(Oscar Wilde)

"You don't like jail?
naw, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
(Charles Bukowski)

"Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home
where you don’t know where the bathroom is."
(Billy Carter)

"La primera bebida con agua, la segunda sin agua,
la tercera...como si fuera agua!"
(Spanish proverb)

"The worse thing about some men is that
when they are not drunk they are sober."
(William Butler Yeats)

"They talk of my drinking but never my thirst."
(Scottish proverb)

"Drinking is a way of ending the day."
(Ernest Hemingway)

"I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide,
but I plan to drink myself to death."
(Jack Kerouac)

"Well I woke up this mornin' and I got myself a beer."
(Jim Morrison - from "Roadhouse Blues")

"I distrust camels and anyone else who can go
a week without a drink."
(Joe E. Lewis)

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
(P.J. O'Rourke)

"If I saved all the money I've spent on beer,
I'd spend it on beer."
(Anonymous)

"I don't drink water, fish fuck in it."
(Oscar Wilde)

"Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful,
and not to make them drunk."
(Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 31:36)

"Bacchus: a convenient deity invented by the ancients
as an excuse for getting drunk."
(Ambrose Bierce)

"If drinking interferes with your job, quit your job."
(Anonymous)

"The worst thing in the world is a
drinking companion with a memory."
(Anonymous)

"If you are drinking to forget, please pay before you begin."
(Seen in a bar)

"This is one of the disadvantages of wine:
it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
(Samuel Johnson)

"Wine gives a man nothing.
It neither gives him knowledge nor wit;
it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out
what a dread of the company has repressed.
It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost."
(Samuel Johnson)

"Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul,
gives being to our hopes, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes."
(Horatio)

"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself;
I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others."
(Samuel Johnson)