Sayings on Alcohol & Spirits
They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~ Scottish Proverbs
One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few. ~ Spanish Proverb
In heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink ours here. ~ Irish Proverbs
One hundred alcoholics are better than one gambler.~ Tunisian Proverbs
Good drink drives out bad thoughts. ~ Dutch Proverbs
They who drink beer think beer. ~ American Proverbs
He who takes a risk never gets to drink champagne. ~ Russian Proverbs
The first drink makes you a frisky gazelle, the second an impetuous zebra, the third a roaring lion, and with the fourth you become a silly donkey. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. ~ Spanish Proverbs
The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer. ~ German Proverbs
Women do not drink liquor but it disappears when they are present. ~ Irish Proverb
Drunk sweetly, paid sourly. ~ German Proverb
With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough. ~ Chinese Proverbs
With a bottle and a girl one does not count the hours. ~ Polish Proverbs
A good drink makes the old young. ~ Traditional Proverb
A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk — a good man about what he has seen and heard.~ Chinese Proverb
He who risks never gets to drink champagne. ~ Russian Proverb
The Irish ignore anything they can’t drink or punch. ~ Traditional Proverb
He who is not drunk on a Sunday is not worth a greeting on Monday. ~ Albanian Proverbs
Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy whiskey. ~ United States Proverbs
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water. ~ Spanish Proverb
It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for. ~ Irish Proverb
Man’s way to God is with beer in hand. ~ Irish Proverb
Eat with pleasure; drink with measure. ~ French Proverbs
There are no bad beers; some kinds are better than others. ~ German Proverb
The more the mother-in-law drinks the friendlier is her greeting. ~ Greek Proverbs
A drink precedes a story. ~ Irish Proverb
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. ~ Irish Proverb
Give me, Lord, my daily bread, I will get my own brandy. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Nothing is more expensive than the first beer. ~ French Proverb
It is only the first bottle that is expensive. ~ French Proverb
Brandy is as lead in the morning, silver at noon, and gold at night. ~ German Proverb
One whisky is all right; two is too much; three is too few. ~ Scottish Proverbs
It is easier to take a couple of drinks than to refuse them. ~ Polish Proverb
A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end–and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka. ~ Yiddish Proverb
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. ~ Irish Proverb
When the liquor was gone the fun was gone. ~ Irish Proverb
If the bathroom and a brandy cannot help a man, then death is imminent. ~ Finnish Proverbs
A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure. ~ Czech Proverbs
Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but only, alas, until tomorrow. ~ German Proverb
The best beer is where priests go to drink. ~ Irish Proverb
Enter alcohol, exit words. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
Quotations about Alcohol & Spirits
Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside. ~ Author Unknown
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
Whiskey and Beer are a man’s worst enemies…but the man that runs away from his enemies is a coward! ~ Zeca Palomino
What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking! ~ George Gordon
Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up. ~ Garrison Keillor
There are no bad beers; some kinds are better than others. ~ German Proverb
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. ~ Humphrey Bogart
The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity. ~ Author Unknown
Take life with a grain of salt, a slice of lime, and a shot of tequila. ~ Author Unknown
Pretty women make us buy beer. Ugly women make us drink beer. ~ Ed O’Neill
One reason why I don’t drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time. ~ Nancy Witcher Astor
Oh, lager beer! It makes good cheer, and proves the poor man’s worth; It cools the body through and through, and regulates the health. ~ Author Unknown
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ~ Marguerite Duras
No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single. ~ Henry Louis Mencken
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Many a woman drives a man to drink water. ~ Author Unknown
Make sure that the beer – four pints a week – goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop. ~ Winston Churchill
Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. ~ William Carlos Williams
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I’m not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings. I’m a drunk. We go to parties. ~ Author Unknown
If drinking is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you’re probably an alcoholic. ~ Author Unknown
I’ve always believed that paradise will have my favorite beer on tap. ~ Rudyard Wheatley
I’m not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings. I’m a drunk. We go to parties. ~ Author Unknown
I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. ~ Johnny Depp
I usually need a can of beer to prime me. ~ Norman Mailer
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ~ Winston Churchill
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
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I drink only to make my friends seem interesting. ~ Don Marquis
I don’t drink; I don’t like it – it makes me feel good. ~ Oscar Levant
How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink? ~Author Unknown
Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems. ~ The Simpsons
Here’s to a long life and a merry one, a quick death and an easy one, a pretty girl and an honest one, a cold beer and another one! ~ Author Unknown
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. ~ Kaiser Wilhelm
Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime! ~ Bill Owen
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ~Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I’ll have another drink. ~ Author Unknown
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ~ Carl Gustav Jung
Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do ‘t to-morrow.~ John Fletcher
Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third. ~ Knute Rockne
Draft beer, not people. ~ Author Unknown
Beer needs baseball, and baseball needs beer – it has always been thus. ~ Peter Richmond
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. ~ Henry Lawson
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer. ~ Clementine Paddleford
Beer is the cause and solution to all of life’s problems. ~ Homer Simpson
Beer is prose. Wine is poetry. ~ Jennifer Rosen
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Beer is made by men, wine by God. ~ Martin Luther
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. ~ Kinky Friedman
Alcohol preserves everything but not dignity. ~ Author Unknown
Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life’s problems. ~ Dan Castellaneta
Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains. ~ Mary Pettibone Poole
A medium Vodka dry Martini–with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ~ Ian Fleming
A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck. ~ Author Unknown
A man can hide all things, excepting twain– That he is drunk, and that he is in love. ~ Antiphanes of Macedonia
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ~ Jim Bishop