Quotes About Alcohol

No celebration is complete without alcohol and no pain or sorrow is actually drowned if not flushed with alcohol. If you too are of the same opinion and a lover of your gin and tonic, then take a look at the following quotes and sayings about drinking alcohol. These funny lines are quoted by famous as well as anonymous authors.

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 Schenck

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts!
― Finley Peter Dunne

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought!
― Samuel Johnson

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.
― Marguerite Duras

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
― Horace

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
― Dave Barry

Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains.
― Mary Pettibone Poole

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
― Henny Youngman

Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
― Ambrose Bierce

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
― P.J. O'Rourke

Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now bring on that damn cat!"
― Eleanor Early

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
― Raymond Chandler

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
― Matt Groening

Weren't these quotes funny? Lastly, here is one of the best among all the funny ones:

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
― George Bernard Shaw