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Drinking Quotes

1.
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
Lewis Grizzard

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2.
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
Martin Luther

Whoever quaffs beer, they slumber swiftly; whoever slumbers long, does not transgress; whoever does not transgress, ascends to Heaven! Therefore, let us swig beer!
3.
Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those who have no safe drinking water. It is about health care, it is about a life of dignity for the old. It is about overcoming the huge divide between urban and rural areas. It is about a decent education for all our people. Socialism is about rolling back the tyranny of the market. As long as the economy is dominated by an unelected, privileged few, the case for socialism will exist.
Chris Hani

4.
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

5.
If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.
Genghis Khan

6.
A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.
Lemmy Kilmister

A youngster queried me, "Do you suffer from aftereffects?" I responded, "To experience aftereffects you must discontinue imbibing."
7.
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.
Al Capone

When I dispense alcohol, it's contraband. When my customers present it on a platter on Lakeshore Drive, it's cordiality.
8.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler

'Those who appear to be ordinary may actually possess extraordinary qualities.'
9.
It gladdens me to know that Baldr’s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale from the curved horns. The champion who comes into Odin’s dwelling [Valhalla] does not lament his death. I shall not enter his hall with words of fear upon my lips. The Æsir will welcome me. Death comes without lamenting… Eager am I to depart. The Dísir summon me home, those whom Odin sends for me [Valkyries] from the halls of the Lord of Hosts. Gladly shall I drink ale in the high-seat with the Æsir. The days of my life are ended. I laugh as I die.
Ragnar Lodbrok

10.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Ernest Hemingway

I imbibe to enliven the company.
11.
Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.
Gary Smalley

Holding a grudge is like ingesting poison and expecting the perpetrator to suffer.
12.
My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'
Lemmy Kilmister

My entire social life revolves around taverns, so giving up alcohol is not an alternative I can entertain. Could you envision me asking for a glass of tomato juice?
13.
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
William Faulkner

'There is no such thing as an inferior whiskey. Some may be superior to others, but a person should not indulge in spirits until they reach middle age; then it would be foolish not to.'
14.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.
Ice Cube

Humpty Dumpty perched atop the rampart with a spliff, imbibing some octane.
15.
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
Dorothy Parker

I savor a martini/A maximum of two/After three I'm tottering/Four and I'm slurring my words.
16.
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

The issue with the world is that everyone is a step or two short of sobriety.
17.
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
Bette Davis

A juncture arrives in every female's life when the only remedy is a flute of sparkling wine.
18.
One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by little you must create a fog around yourself; you must erase everything around you until nothing can be taken for granted, until nothing is any longer for sure, or real. Your problem now is that you're too real. Your endeavors are too real, your moods are too real. Don't take things so for granted. You must begin to erase yourself.
Carlos Castaneda

19.
I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.
Dean Martin

I was so inebriated last night I toppled over and failed to connect with the ground.
20.
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
Kofi Annan

We shall not vanquish any of the transmittable illnesses that afflict the underdeveloped world until we have also achieved victory for safe drinking water, sanitation, and rudimentary medical attention.
21.
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
Willie Nelson

22.
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.
Martin Luther

23.
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman

My grandmother is over eighty and still has 20/20 vision. Gulps down beverages straight from the container.
24.
Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!
Robert Alan Aurthur

25.
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.
Winona LaDuke

Someone needs to elucidate why desiring potable water makes one an activist, and why putting forward to annihilate water with toxic weapons does not designate a business as a terrorist.
26.
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin

If you imbibe, don't motor. Don't even putter.
27.
I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’
Humphrey Bogart

28.
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.
Federico Garcia Lorca

29.
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.
John D. Rockefeller

30.
The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.
Shane MacGowan

31.
I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.
Humphrey Bogart

I abandoned alcohol consumption once -- it was the most awful day of my life.
32.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur

A flagon of vino contains more wisdom than all the volumes in existence.
33.
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier
Sam Manekshaw

34.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns

35.
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
Albert Einstein

36.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Casey Stengel

37.
Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.
John Daly

38.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw

39.
We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.
Jim Jefferies

40.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway

41.
The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!
Leonard Ravenhill

42.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII

43.
Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.
Ruhollah Khomeini

44.
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
Karl Marx

45.
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Humphrey Bogart

46.
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
Dorothy Parker

47.
I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
Tom Waits

48.
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
Willie Nelson

49.
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

50.
A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.
Henny Youngman