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Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes
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Collected from various internet sources, including email sigs and Daniel Huckaby of tamu.edu .
| 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 |
| The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. |
... William Butler Yeats |
| An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. |
... For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway |
| Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. |
... Ernest Hemingway |
| You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. |
... Dean Martin |
| No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness or as good as drink. |
... G.K. Chesterton |
| Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. |
... Catherine Zandonella |
| Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. |
... Ambrose Bierce |
| I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. |
... W.C. Fields |
| A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. |
... W.C. Fields |
| What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? |
... W.C. Fields |
I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
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... Lady Astor, Social reformer |
| Who wouldn't? |
... A voice from the crowd |
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
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... Lady Astor to Winston Churchill |
| Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. |
... Winston Churchill's reply |
| If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. |
... David Daye |
| Work is the curse of the drinking classes. |
... Oscar Wilde |
| When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. |
... Henny Youngman |
| I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. |
... Tom Waits |
When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
Sooooo, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven... |
... Brian O'Rourke |
| Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. |
... Dave Barry's Bad Habits |
| When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer. |
... Postpetroleum Guzzler
Dave Barry |
| Adhere to the Schweinheitsgebot. Don't put anything in your beer that a pig wouldn't eat. |
... David Geary |
you don't like jail?
naw, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. |
... Charles Bukowski |
| If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. |
... Deep Thought, Jack Handy |
| One more drink and I'd be under the host. |
... Dorothy Parker |
| All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow. |
... Dave Barry |
| Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. |
... Dave Barry |
| My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time. |
... A Wolverine is Eating My Leg |
| The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. |
... Humphrey Bogart |
| Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. |
... David Moulton |
| A drink a day keeps the shrink away. |
... Edward Abbey |
| People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot. |
... Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI |
| Put it back in the horse! |
... H. Allen Smith, an American humorist in the '30s-'50s, after he drank his first American beer at a bar. |
| You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline--it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. |
... Frank Zappa |
| They proceed with the speed of rockets to the northeast corner of the universe, which George percieved to be shaped exactly like a pint of beer, in which the nebulae were the ascending bubbles. |
... John Collier, The Devil, George, and Rosie |
| A *good* beer is one that sells! You may think it sucks but if the market embraces it, so be it. Now a *great* beer or world class beer is another matter.... |
... Jim Busch |
| I am the first man south of the Mason-Dixon line to brew a drinkable home-brew. |
... H.L. Mencken, in "Heathen Days" |
| American Beer is a lot like making love in a row boat- It's f__king close to water! |
... Monty Python's Eric Idle |
| Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime! |
... Bill Owen |
Okay, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me. Let's just
take this exam so I can get back to killing you with beer. |
... Homer Simpson |
| They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand. |
... Ben Schwalb |
| I have never been into wine. I'm a beer man. What I like about beer is you basically just drink it and order more. You don't sniff at it, or hold it up to the light and slosh it around, or drone on and on about it, the way people do with wine. Your beer drinker tends to be a straightforward, decent, friendly, down-to-earth person, whereas your serious wine fancier tends to be an insufferable snot. |
... Dave Barry |
| The hardest part about making beer is siphoning it into bottles. This is tricky, because what can happen is the phone rings and you get involved in a lengthy conversation during which your 4 year-old son gets hold of the hose and spews premature beer, called "wort", all over the kitchen and himself, and you become the target of an investigation by child welfare authorities because yours is the only child who comes to preschool smelling like a fraternity carpet. |
... Dave Barry |
DO RE MI DRINK
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DOUGH... the stuff... that buys me beer
RAY... the guy that sells me beer
ME... the one... who drinks the beer
FAR... a long run to get beer
SO... I'll have another beer
LA... I'll have another beer
TEA... no, thanks, I'm drinking beer
That will bring us back to (looks into empty glass) D'OH! |
... Homer Simpson's beer song |
The following quotes appear to be anonymous:
- Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it.
- Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
- Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
- Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
- 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
- It's better to have beer in hand than gas in tank.
- Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
- Beer - it's not just for breakfast anymore
- Beer is the reason I get up every afternoon.
- Beer: Nature's laxative.
- Beer. If you can't taste it, why bother!
- Beer is good food.
- Friends don't let friends drink Light Beer.
- If nothing beats a Bud, given the choice, I'd take the nothing...
- Draft beer, not people!
- My favorite black-and-tan is a "mother-in-law": a mixture of stout and bitter.
- If I saved all the money I've spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer.
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