Quotes about drinkers

John L. O'Sullivan -

A torch-light procession marching down your throat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald -

First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.

Thomas Becon -

For when the wine is in the wit is out.

John Barrymore -

He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

Old saying -

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

George Bernard Shaw -

I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.

William Butler Yeats -

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

George Gobel -

I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.

Pliny the Elder -

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

Oliver Wendell Holmes -

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Old saying -

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

Kenneth Tynan -

What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.

Dean Martin -

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

Thomas Stonewall Jackson -

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Herodotus -

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made and if it is then approved they act on it if not they set it aside. Sometimes however they are sober at their first deliberations but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence

Bertrand Russell -

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Guiseppe Garibaldi -

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

John Erskine -

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.

Hugh Hood -

Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

Samuel Johnson -

Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.

Samuel Johnson -

Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.

George Jean Nathan -

I drink to make other people interesting.

Samuel Johnson -

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Jewish proverb -

The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.

Robert C. Edwards -

Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.

A. E. Housman -

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

Bible -

A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.

George Herbert -

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

Sean O'Faolain -

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald -

Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease her husband leaves her in nine out often cases when a man contracts it his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.

Randle Cotgrave -

Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.

W. C. Fields -

We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee water milk soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing I will make mine whisky.

James Thurber -

It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Seneca -

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Francois Rabelais -

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

William Lyon Mackenzie -

He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.

Plato -

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

W. C. Fields -

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.

Brendan Behan -

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

Humphrey Bogart -

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

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