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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

Barach, Alvan L.

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.

Washington, Denzel

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Behan, Brendan F.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Selden, John

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

I drink to make other people interesting.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Epictetus

11.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped [drinking], I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now.

Larroquette, John

13.

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!

Crowley, Aleister

14.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Lee, Robert E.

15.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

16.

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Aldrich, Henry

17.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Churchill, Winston

18.

I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

Squire, John

19.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

20.

If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose!

Sermond, Pete

21.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Yeats, William Butler

22.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

23.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

24.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Herbert, George

26.

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Pepys, Samuel

29.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Temple, Sir William

32.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Duras, Marguerite

33.

Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise.

Bible

34.

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

Fields, W. C.

35.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Burton, Sir Richard

36.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Sill, Edward Rowland

37.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

38.

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with, and it must be so.

Native American Elder

39.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Masson, Thomas L.

40.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

41.

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.

Zappa, Frank

42.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Goldsmith, Oliver

43.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Bunuel, Luis

44.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Lee, Robert E.

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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.