Ideas and Quotes

General Drinking Quotes

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
- Humphrey Bogart

"Everybody has to believe in something.....I believe I'll have another drink."
- W. C. Fields

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."
- Oscar Wilde

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
- Henry Youngman

"I drink to make other people interesting."
- George Jean Nathan

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt."
- Dean Martin

"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors ... and miss."
- Robert A. Heinlein

Quotes about Beer

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
- Benjamin Franklin

"He was a wise man who invented beer."
- Plato

"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
- Homer Simpson

"I work until beer o'clock."
- Steven King

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? "
- Anonymous

Quotes about Martini

"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."
- James Thurber

"Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either."
- P. J. O'Rourke

Quotes about Whiskey

"Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch."
- W. C. Fields

"Whisky is liquid sunshine."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough."
- Mark Twain

"What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for."
- Irish Proverb

Quotes about Wine

"Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used."
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

"In vino veritas"
- Pliny, Historia Naturalis

"Wine is bottled poetry."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1771

"Wine that maketh glad the heart of man."
- The Book of Psalms, 104:15