1,261 Quotes About Drinking

New wine may please the eye, but the tongue always prefers the old.

If they really wanted to stop drinking and driving, just take away their cars.

The idea ... was slightly off-putting, but once I've started drinking, not much can stop me, so I went along.

Smoke less, drink more.

Ralph's people in Washington were not as bad as he had always thought. The drunkard had found God a week after a Fourth of July and had said good-bye to the bottle for good. Washington was good to the old man's bones.

In an age of hard drinking Hornblower stood almost alone in his abstemiousness, from no conscientious motive but solely because he actively disliked the feeling of not having complete control of his judgment.

Although a drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts, both the words and thoughts are usually muddled and destructive, as is generally the case with drinkers and talkers.

My Lord Bedlington had not kept company with the Regent for years without acquiring a hard head and the digestion of an ostrich. Mellow he might become, and indiscreet stories he certainly told, but not his worst enemy would have accused him of being foxed.

You think you're better because you don't drink, smoke or do drugs. Well guess what? You're damn right. Be better, but don't broadcast you're better.