Drinking Quotes
Drinking is the act of consuming a liquid through the mouth. Water is required for many of the body's physiological processes, and excess or decreased water intake is associated with health problems. "Drinking" may refer specifically to alcoholism depending on the context in which the term is used. It also refers to the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess. Social drinking is very important to make others comfortable but if drinking is done in excess then it can lead to severe damage of organs.
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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Drinking quotes can be used in any of the parties to make the atmosphere more informal and light hearted. They also show what can happen if someone drinks in excess. These quotes draw examples from many situations and also give the message that one should adhere to responsible drinking only.
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin
Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly.
George Colman
And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel!
Unknown Author
Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.
William R. Alger
Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves; And they gave me this jolly red nose.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in the Earth and are With constant Drinking fresh and fair.
Abraham Cowley
What harm in drinking can there be, Since punch and life so well agree?
Thomas Blacklock
Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for the bottle.
Charles Dibdin
It's a long time between drinks.
Robert Browning
And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.
Geoffrey Chaucer
When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation.
Charles Dickens
There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.
Robert Burns
Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.
Emily Dickinson
Here With my beer I sit, While golden moments flit: Alas! They pass Unheeded by: And as they fly, I, Being dry, Sit, idly sipping here My beer.
George Arnold
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Robert Burns
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Cervantes
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
Eugene Field
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman
Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid.
James Beattie
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
Cicero
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
Abraham Cowley
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
Robert Browning
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. Housman
When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire, I haul my sail, look up around, In search of Whitbread's best entire. - Unattributed Author,
Unknown Author
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
Bible
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Dave Barry
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing, Singing will make a man laugh, And laughing long life doth bring, Says old Simon the King. - Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,
Unknown Author
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields
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