Drinking Alcohol Quotes

• it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Desire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Doctors

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

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• There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Alcohol, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.199, Penguin

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• Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hangover, Drinking, Ideas

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• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Patience, Drinking, Funny Sarcastic

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• Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Block, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Aug 23, 2011

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• There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.347, Bantam Classics

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• I drink to make other people interesting.

  George Jean Nathan

  Drinking, Book, Beer

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

  Dudley Moore

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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• Good people drink good beer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Drinking, Beer

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

  Sylvia Plath

  Powerful, Drinking, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.8, Hamilton Books

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• We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

  David Sedaris

  Drinking, Healing, Emotional

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, Glasses, Drunk

  "The Beautiful and Damned". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, pitchfork.com. 1922.

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• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Alcohol, Mind

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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  Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Drinking

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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

  Dylan Thomas

  Funny, Drinking, Food

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

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

  Retirement, Drinking, Book

  "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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