Quotes about alcohol-and-alcoholism

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

— Mark Twain

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

— Mark Twain

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

— Source Unknown

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

— Source Unknown

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

— Source Unknown

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

— Source Unknown

I drink to make other people interesting.

— Source Unknown

The piano has been drinking, not me.

— Tom Waits

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.

— Denzel Washington

And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?

— Sir William Watson

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

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off. it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

— William Shakespeare

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

— A. E. Housman

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

— William Shakespeare

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

— Jonathan Swift

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

— Jean Kerr

Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.

— Ogden Nash

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

— Abraham Lincoln