Quotes+on+drink

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor. ~ • • Pro:- • Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.~ Lord Byron • The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. ~ Alben W. Barkley • Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts. ~ Finley Peter Dunne • There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. ~ William Faulkner • I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. ~ W. C. Fields • It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. ~ W. C. Fields • 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. ~ Ernest Hemingway • And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. ~ A. E. Housman • I drink to forget I drink. ~ Joe E. Lewis • I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day. ~ Dean Martin • Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker. ~ Ogden Nash • I only drink to make other people seem more interesting. ~ George Jean Nathan • What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. ~ Irish Proverb • There are more old drunkards than old physicians. ~ Francois Rabelais (Gargantua) • Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ~ Bernard Shaw Con:

• One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ~ Lady Nancy Astor • This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus • A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. ~ Thomas Fuller

Caution :

• Never accept a drink from a Urologist. ~ Erma Bombeck • I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. ~ Joe E. Lewis • If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~ Dean Martin • A hangover is something to fill a head that was empty the night before. ~ Anon Comments :

• Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge • When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk. ~ Sir Richard Burton • Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. ~ Jean Kerr • I'm not so think as you drunk I am. ~ John Squire • Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. ~ Mark Twain • The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. ~ William Butler Yeats • 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 • Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth. - George Burns  