Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him. – Anon.
I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini. – Robert Benchley
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with its just compounding the felony. – Robert Benchley
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. – Jim Bishop
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. – Jimmy Breslin
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable. – Truman Capote
Then trust me, theres nothing like drinking So pleasant on this side the grave; It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes een the valiant more brave. – Charles Dibdin
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. – Henry Fielding
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. – Kahlil Gibran
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear ont, and tightly, too, an I live, ifaith. – Ben Johnson
When youre thirty-five, you cant take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it… – John Lennon
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in 14 days I lost two weeks. – Joe E. Lewis
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. – Abraham Lincoln
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – Don Marquis
The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy. – William Proxmire
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Sir Walter Scott
There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink. – Oscar Wilde
