Drinking Quotes

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. (Henny Youngman)
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals. View quote
Pierre Beaumarchais
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. View quote
George Best
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. View quote
Robert Benchley
Don't say you can't give up drinking. It's easy. I've done it a thousand times. View quote
W. C. Fields
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. View quote
Walter Scott
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. View quote
Carrie Fisher
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. View quote
Alexander Pope
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. (Samuel Johnson)
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. View quote
Clement Freud
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking. View quote
Bill Cosby
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The piano has been drinking, not me. View quote
Tom Waits
There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless. View quote
Thom Yorke
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. View quote
Babe Ruth
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion. View quote
Alice Cooper
There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub. (Anthony Bourdain)
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. View quote
Dave Barry
I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down. View quote
Jack Osbourne
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time; he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking were making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really. View quote
Jack Osbourne