Top 25 great drinking quotes
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Introduction
...or quotes about drinking. Drinking beer, wine, spirits that is. Not to be confused with great quotes about drinking milk. Or great quotes about drinking sweet tea on your front porch. Without further ado...
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Beer, the cause of and solution to, all life's problems.
Homer Simpson
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy.
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Dorothy Parker. Check out the link above for many more quotes from Dorothy Parker.
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All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
Homer Simpson
4
I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan.
5
Work is the curse of the drinking classes
Oscar Wilde. Another master of putting words together in ways that stick true.
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra
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The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
Joe Walsh
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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets
Arthur, played by Dudley Moore.
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Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
Anonymous
10
They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
Scottish saying.
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When I realized that what I had turned out to be was a lousy, two-bit pool hustler and drunk, I wasn't depressed at all. I was glad to have a profession.
Danny McGoorty
12
Drinking is a way of ending the day.
Earnest Hemingway.
13
I never eat breakfast on an empty stomach.
WC Fields
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Earnest Hemingway
15
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
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Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
Henry Lawson
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This is one of the disadvantages of wine; it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
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The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
Richard Braunstein
19
I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best
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There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.
Ben Franklin
21
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Casey Stengel
22
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
Noel Coward
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Why is there so much wine left at the end of my money?
Milan Maximovich
24
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
Steve Allen. Love the glasses!
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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
The Homer Simpson quote reminds me of a poster I used to have hanging up in my cube at work. It was Home in his underwear laying on the couch, passed out from drinking. It said:
"Beer...the temporary solution"
"Beer...the temporary solution"
All great quotes! One of my favorites:
Show me the way to go home / I'm tired and I want to go to bed...
I had a little drink about an hour ago and it got right to my head...
Show me the way to go home / I'm tired and I want to go to bed...
I had a little drink about an hour ago and it got right to my head...
i only take a drink on two occasions; when i'm thirsty and when i'm not.
Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy.
That would be Winston Churchill I believe though Tom Waits does indeed have a way with words.
That would be Winston Churchill I believe though Tom Waits does indeed have a way with words.
it's lobotomy guys.
I'm voting for Waits myself.
Another good one is Norm (or Cliff?) on Cheers , very long, regarding beer killing off the weak brain cells, so drinking is good for you.
I'm voting for Waits myself.
Another good one is Norm (or Cliff?) on Cheers , very long, regarding beer killing off the weak brain cells, so drinking is good for you.
ok i know you said no milk quotes but...
"Milk was a bad choice"
Ron Burgundy
aka Will Ferrel in Anchorman
"Milk was a bad choice"
Ron Burgundy
aka Will Ferrel in Anchorman
How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon--and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.
W.C. Fields
W.C. Fields
I have always attributed the lobotomy quote to Dorothy Parker, and I used it long before anybody ever heard of Tom Waits.
Can I sing a little song here?
Oooooooooooooh,
the liquor was spilled on the bar room floor,
And the bar was closed for the night,
When out of the house came a little brown mouse,
who sat in the pale moon light.
Heeeeee lapped up the liquor on the bar room floor,
back on his haunches he sat,
And all night long, you could hear him roarrrrrrrrr...
BRING ON THE GOSHDURN CAT!!!
Oooooooooooooh,
the liquor was spilled on the bar room floor,
And the bar was closed for the night,
When out of the house came a little brown mouse,
who sat in the pale moon light.
Heeeeee lapped up the liquor on the bar room floor,
back on his haunches he sat,
And all night long, you could hear him roarrrrrrrrr...
BRING ON THE GOSHDURN CAT!!!
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