Top 49 Alcohol Quotes About Drinking & Partying

Making decisions can be difficult when you’re trying to figure out how much alcohol you should consume. You might feel like you’re walking the line between “okay” and “potentially taking it too far for a random weeknight.”

Yes, we all know that alcohol is a social lubricant and can help us make new friends. But we also know that alcohol can ruin a lot of things. For this reason, it’s important to remember to drink responsibly and enjoy in moderation.

Drinking alcohol can be a great way to open up your mind and have an outlook on fresh and new life. Alcohol has been known to inspire many of the world’s greatest thinkers and philosophers in insightful and funny ways.

Have fun in moderation! Drinking alcohol can lead to a lot of laughter, crazy antics, and fun times.

Here are  49 Alcohol quotes to enjoy your wildest party

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

2. “The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.” ― Richard Braunstein

3. “One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.” ― Lady Astor

4. “24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?” – Stephen Wright

5. “There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.” ― Bette Davis

6. “Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.” ― Tom Waits

7. “One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.” ― James Thurber

8. “Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? You know there’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” ― Drew Carey

9. “Drink ’til the ground looks blue.” ― Thomas Heywood

10. “I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink beer to celebrate a major event such as the fall of Communism or the fact that the refrigerator is still working.” ― Dave Berry

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

12. “If drinking is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you’re probably an alcoholic.” ― Anonymous

13. “Almost anything can be preserved in alcohol, except health, happiness, and money.” ― Mary Wilson Little

14. “A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.” ― Albert Einstein

15. “What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” – W. Clement Stone

16. “Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.” ― Jonathan Swift

17. “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.” ― Benjamin Franklin

18. “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” ― G.K. Chesterton

19. “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” ― Hunter S. Thompson

20. “Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.” ― Finley Peter Dunne

21. “Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.” ― W.C. Fields

22. “There are two kinds of people I don’t trust: people who don’t drink and people who collect stickers.” ― Chelsea Handler

23. “Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.” ― Lu Yu

24. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” ― Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

25. “I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.” ― Charles Bukowski

26. “I like to have a martini. Two at the very most. After three I’m under the table. After four I’m under my host.” ― Dorothy Parker

27. “There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.” ― Raymond Chandler

28. “Drink washes off the daub and discovers the man.” ― Thomas Fuller

29. “Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

30. “Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.” ― Frank Sinatra

31. “I work until beer o’clock.” ― Stephen King

32. “A man is a fool is he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright

33. “Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.” ― Mark Twain

34. “Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.” ― Oscar Wilde

35. “The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for my enemies.” ― William Temple

36. “Candy is dandy. But liquor is quicker.” ― Ogden Nash

37. “Drinking makes you happy with your body the way it is.” ― Philip Rosenthal

38. “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.” ― Louis Pasteur

39. “If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.” ― Jack Handy

40. “There are only two real ways to get ahead today – sell liquor or drink it.” ― W. C. Fields

41. “I drink when I have occasion … and sometimes when I have no occasion.” ― Miguel De Cervantes

42. “A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” ― Louis Pasteur

43. “Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.” ― Frank Sinatra

44. “One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.” ― Lady Astor

45. “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” ― Ernest Hemmingway

46. “Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.” ― Ben Jonson

47. “Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

48. “Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we’re not poets.” ― Dudley Moore

49. “A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.” ― Steve Fergosi

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