Alcohol Quotes and Sayings

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

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
- Ovid

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little.

Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.

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

Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
- Samuel Johnson

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

Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
- W.C. Fields

Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

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