Drinking Quotes

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
- Jean Kerr

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
- Lord Chesterton

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 envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
- Oscar Levant

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

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

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

Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord.
- John R. Kemble

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
- W.C. Fields

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