Drinking Quotes

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

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
- W.C. Fields

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

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: It makes a man mistake words for thought.
- Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
- H. Jackson Brown

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.
- Anonymous Author