“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
― Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)
“To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems”
― Matt Groening
“Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.”
― Alex Levine
“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
― Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
— Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.”
― W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
― Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
― Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
― Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
― W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
“Good people drink good beer.”
― Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief."
— Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Han nøt aldri alkohol - han helte den rett ned."
—Storm P. (Robert Storm Petersen, 1882-1949)
“Why don’t you give up drinking?”
“Because I don’t choose. It doesn’t matter what a man does if he’s ready to take the consequences. Well, I’m ready to take the consequences. You talk glibly of giving up drinking, but it’s the only thing I’ve got left now. What do you think life would be to me without it? Can you understand the happiness I get out of my absinthe? I yearn for it; and when I drink it I savour every drop, and afterwards I feel my soul swimming in ineffable happiness. It disgusts you. You are a puritan and in your heart you despise sensual pleasures. Sensual pleasures are the most violent and the most exquisite. I am a man blessed with vivid senses, and I have indulged them with all my soul. I have to pay the penalty now, and I am ready to pay.”
― W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"at times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine:
for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind, and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
"Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus...)
("Now we must drink, and stamp the ground with a free foot... ")
—Horace (Horatius Qunitus Flaccus) (65 BCE—8 BCE)
“I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.”
― Mark Twain (1835–1910)
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
― Mark Twain (1835–1910)
“A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime—it’s not very scientific, but it helps.”
-Alexander Fleming (1851-1955)
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
― Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
― Martin Luther (1482-1546)
“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
― Martin Luther (1482-1546)
“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.”
― Morrissey
"Näst sedlighet och gudsfruktan så vet jag inget värre än små brännvinsglas."
—Erkebiskop A. N. Sundberg