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Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging drink quotes, drink sayings, and drink proverbs.
Best Drink Quotes
- “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
- “I drink to make other people more interesting.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
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“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” ~ Humphrey Bogart
- “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” ~ Ingrid Bergman
- “It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.” ~ George Burns
- “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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“Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.” ~ Eugene O’Neill
- “What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!” ~ Lord Byron
- “My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Never accept a drink from a urologist.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.” ~ Maxim Gorky
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“Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.” ~ Kathy Griffin
- “Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.” ~ James Hetfield
- “American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It’s never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.” ~ Tom Holt
- “Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.” ~ Joe E. Lewis
- “When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.” ~ Francois Rabelais
- “I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.” ~ Oscar Levant
- “I drink to make other people interesting.” ~ George Jean Nathan
- “I’ve never been drunk, but often I’ve been overserved.” ~ George Gobel
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“He that drinks fast, pays slow.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I’m thirsty, not dirty.” ~ Joe E. Lewis
- “A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.” ~ William Butler Yeats - “Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.” ~ Jean Kerr
- “I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.” ~ W. C. Fields
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“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer.” ~ Frank Zappa
- “I’m Catholic and I can’t commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.” ~ Nancy Astor
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“Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I don’t have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.” ~ George Burns
- “Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.” ~ Charles Bukowski
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“I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.” ~ Adrian Rogers
- “Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” ~ C. E. M. Joad
- “I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.” ~ W. C. Fields
- “It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield
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“In heaven there is no beer. That’s why we drink ours here.” ~ Frank Yankovic
- “My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Wine is bottled poetry.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” ~ Sylvia Earle
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“Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.” ~ Humphrey Bogart
- “If four or five guys tell you that you’re drunk, even though you know you haven’t had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.” ~ Joseph M. Schenck
- “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.” ~ Jack Lemmon
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“I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.” ~ Roald Dahl
- “Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it’s compounding a felony.” ~ Robert Benchley
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“Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.” ~ Jimmy Breslin
- “And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.” ~ A. E. Housman
- “The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.” ~ Martin Mull
- “An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.” ~ Dylan Thomas
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“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” ~ Ogden Nash
- “Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.” ~ Charles Bukowski
- “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
