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.
~ Henry Aldrich

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
~ Lady Nancy Astor

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

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
~ Alben W. Barkley

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.
~ Roland Barthes

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
~ Brendan F. Behan

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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.
~ Humphrey Bogart

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.
~ Erma Bombeck

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee

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

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

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
~ Samuel Butler

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
~ Lord Byron

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
~ Lord Byron

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

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.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
~ Winston Churchill

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
~ Irvin S. Cobb