Quotes

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

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-Winston Churchill

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

I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
-Noel Coward

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
-Samuel Johnson

When the wine is in, the wit is out.
-Proverb

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

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
-Giuseppe Garibaldi

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.
-Anonymous Author

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

I drink only to make my friends seem interesting.
-Don Marquis