55 Inspirational Drinking Quotes From Famous People (2023)

1. “When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.” ~ Jimmy Breslin

2. “Here’s to alcohol, the rose-colored glasses of life.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. “I feel bad for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” ~ Frank Sinatra

4. “He that drinks fast, pays slow?” ~ Benjamin Franklin

5. “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut?” ~ Ernest Hemingway

6. “I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly.” ~ Ron Burgundy

7. “Responsible drinking? Now that’s an oxymoron.” ~ Aaron Howard

8. “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” ~ Ogden Nash

9. “All is fair in love and beer?” ~ Kurt Paradis

10. “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.” ~ Louis Pasteur

11. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. “Now don’t say you can’t swear off drinking; it’s easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.” ~ W.C. Fields

13. “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food?” ~ W.C. Fields

14. “Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.” ~ Desi Arnaz

15. “If God had intended us to drink beer, he would have given us stomachs?” ~ David Daye

16. “I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it?” ~ Rodney Dangerfield

17. “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy?” ~ Benjamin Franklin

18. “Here’s to alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all life’s problems?” ~ The Simpsons

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

20. “A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.” ~ Charlie Chaplin

21. “The more I drink, the less there is for the kids to drink.” ~ Phoebe Buffay

22. “Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.” ~ Henry Lawson

23. “Beer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.” ~ Jack Nicholson

24. “I drink to make other people more interesting?” ~ Ernest Hemingway

25. “They say as soon as you have to cut down on your drinking, you have a drinking problem.” ~ Don Draper, Mad Men

26. “It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance“-William Shakespeare

27. “Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.” ~ Walter Scott

28. “I drink to make other people more interesting.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

29. “I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.” ~ Sylvia Plath

30. “Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.” ~ Robert Benchley

31. “24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?”~ Steven Wright

32. “I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.” ~ Mark Twain

33. “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

34. “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, and in water there is bacteria.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

35. “Alcohol is a way of life, alcohol is my way of life, and I aim to keep it?” ~ Homer Simpson

36. “In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant Irish people.” ~ Tina Fey

37. “I’m on a whisky diet. I’ve lost three days already?” ~ Tommy Cooper

38. “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

39. “Whisky is liquid sunshine?” ~ George Bernard Shaw

40. “Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast?” ~ Compton Mackenzie

41. “A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts?” ~ Steve Fergosi

42. “When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.” ~ Winston Churchill

43. “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria?” ~ Benjamin Franklin

44. “I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.” ~ William Shakespeare

45. “Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” ~ Mark Twain

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

47. “To alcohol! The cause of – and solution to – all of life’s problems.” ~ Homer Simpson

48. “This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.” ~ Samuel Johnson

49. “After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” ~ Oscar Wilde

50. “Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

51. “Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time?” ~ Catherine Zandonella

52. “I don’t have a drinking problem, ‘cept when I can’t get a drink.” —Tom Waits

53. “If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt?” ~ Dean Martin

54. “One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.” ~ George Carlin

55. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you?” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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