Drinking Toast Quotes

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.258

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Mark Twain

Drinking, Wine, Scotch

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

W. C. Fields

Drinking, Wine, Excellence

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Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.

Cathy Hopkins

Death, Drinking, Beer

Cathy Hopkins (2007). “Mates, Dates and Chocolate Cheats”, p.13, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

Military, Drinking, Taken

In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Tom Waits

Friends, Pain, Real

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway

Funny, Witty, Clever

Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Ogden Nash

Funny, Drinking, Beer

"Reflection on Ice-breaking" l. 1 (1931)

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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

Dave Barry

Fun, Drinking, Book

"Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.

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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Ben Jonson

Drinking, Sorrow, Use

Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1811). “The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.149

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There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Bette Davis

Drinking, Wine, Glasses

"Fictional character: Kit Marlowe". "Old Acquaintance", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Wine, Alcohol, Sun

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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 we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!

Brian O'Rourke

Food, Fall, Drinking

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Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

Groucho Marx

Funny, Witty, Girlfriend

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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

Love, Inspirational, Life

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May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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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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Work like you don't need the money.

Joseph Joubert

Dance, Work, Hippie

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Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

Dario Fo

Drinking, Use, After Death

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Witty, Work

Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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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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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

Myrtle Reed

Friendship, House, May

Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Phyllis McGinley

New Year, Years, Lifts

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The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

Euripides

Drinking, Beer, Thinking

Euripides (1929). “Euripides: With an English Translation”

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