Alcoholic Drinks Quotes:

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

- Ogden Nash

topic: Drinking, Liquor, Candy, Funny Sarcastic, Perspiration

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

- John Milton

topic: Dream, Drinking, Alcohol, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same ***** your father was."; "Drinking will significantly improve your chances of murdering a loved one."; "If you drink long enough, at some point you will vomit up the lining of your stomach."; "Use this product and you may wake up in Morocco wearing a cowboy suit and tongue-kissing a transmission salesman."

- George Carlin

topic: Father, Drinking, Kissing, Pork Chops, Warning Labels

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Sorry, People, Feels, Sorry Men, Praiseworthy

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

- Thomas de Quincey

source: Thomas De Quincey (1841). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.89

topic: Men, Alcohol, Sobriety, Liquor Funny, Drinking Alcohol

I drink to make other people more interesting.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: "How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.

topic: Funny, Life, Drinking, Whisky, Ordinary People

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

- Dylan Thomas

source: Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations quoted by Nigel Rees. Fontana London (1987)

topic: Funny, Drinking, Wine, Soft Drinks, Alcoholism

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.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Funny, Music, Morning, Sorry Men, Irish Beer

They who drink beer will think beer.

- Washington Irving

topic: Funny, Witty, Drinking, Drinkers, Whiskey Drinking

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

- Lord Byron

source: "The Deformed Transformed". Book by Lord Byron, 1824.

topic: Drinking, Food, Beer, Alcohol And Life, Alcohol Drinking

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Wine, Soul, Flow, Drinking Cheers, Alcoholic Drinks

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

source: 'Reasons for Drinking'

topic: Drinking, Wine, Thinking, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Men, Wind, House, Liquor Funny, Drinking Funny

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

topic: Alcoholic Drinks, Drunkards, Great Drinking

Never give a sucker an even break.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Giving, Comedy, Break, Alcoholic Drinks, Break Even

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Drinking, Sometimes, Drink, Drinkers, Wine Toast

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Drinking, Physicians, Alcoholic Drinks, Drunkards

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

topic: Drinking, Alcohol, Desire, Liquor Funny, Funny Alcohol

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Beautiful, Wine, Blonde, Vineyards, Best Wine

It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don't mind it?

- Ibn Taymiyyah

topic: Drinking, Fall, People, Alcoholic Drinks

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

- Ludwig von Mises

topic: Beer, Men, Alcohol, Alcoholic Drinks, Breweries

The reality is [in] any emotional situation, a compulsive eater eats or an alcoholic drinks. What people misunderstand is that when you're a compulsive overeater, you don't just eat when things are bad. You eat when you feel anything.

- Jeff Garlin

source: Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

topic: Reality, Emotional, People, Alcoholic Drinks

Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

- Arthur Brisbane

topic: Wine, Thinking, Iron, Alcoholic Drinks

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

- James Larkin

topic: House, Bars, Lips, Alcoholic Drinks

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

- George Saintsbury

source: George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

topic: Alcohol, Soul, Body, Brandy, Alcoholic Drinks

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

- Dodie Smith

topic: Father, Believe, Water, Alcoholic Drinks, Hot Water

I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Drink, Enjoy, Alcoholics, Alcoholic Drinks

I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" was my name.

- Alice Cooper

source: Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

topic: Thinking, Years, Names, Alcoholic Drinks, Budweiser

So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Taken, Wine, Beer, Like Fine Wine, Fine Wine