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Quotes About Alcohol

Weekend forecast: mostly drunk with a chance of regret
~ Internet meme
Conserve Water, Drink Wine
~ R. S. Jackson
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
~ Author unknown, 1970s
A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.
~ Korean proverb
Wine makes old wives wenches.
~ English proverb
He who drinks a fifth on the fourth may not be able to go forth on the fifth.
~ Internet meme
Quarantini recipe — 2 parts whatever alcohol you have lying around and 1 part boredom
~ Internet meme, March 2020
Half of us are going to come out of this isolation as amazing cooks and the other half as drunkards.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
Booze and gasoline make a deadly mixture.
~ Denver Post, c.1934
The driver is safer when the roads are dry; the roads are safer when the driver is dry.
~ Author Unknown
Drive hammered, get nailed.
~ Author Unknown
Drive hammered, get slammered.
~ Author Unknown
Drink and drive — the police will show you some new bars.
~ Author Unknown
Buzzed driving is drunk driving.
~ Author Unknown
A man who once asserted "one drink never hurt nobody" was now wholeheartedly enlisted in the ranks of Prohibitionists who had been fighting for decades against "demon rum" and "John Barleycorn" in the belief that bad private behavior should be restrained by federal statute.
~ H. Paul Jeffers
Nobody forced me to speak. Nobody? Ah yes, alcohol had made me do it. When once I had understood, when once I had realised to the full, what a liar alcohol is, and what liars it makes of honest men, I swore never to touch another drop and even to give up my occasional glass of beer. But what are resolutions, what are plans?
~ Hans Fallada
oh, how beautiful life is! Intoxication, forget-fulness, to float along on the stream of forgetfulness, into the twilight, deep into the darkness where there is neither failure nor regret … good alcohol, I salute you.
~ Hans Fallada
Drain your drink, come on. You don't leave a full glass in a pub. Charles II outlawed it.
~ Harriet Evans
Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.
~ Harry Crews
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
~ Havelock Ellis
He's got so much drugs and alcohol in him right now that about the only thing I could order him to do and expect a response on would be to smile.
~ Heather Graham
When she started to fill the entire glass, he jerked the bottle out of her hand. She swirled on him, staring at him hatefully. "How dare you! You're not my brother, my father, my husband—" "That's right, Christa, I'm no one but a filthy Yank. And you're going to turn into a southern lush if you're not careful!
~ Heather Graham
Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.
~ Lawrence Block
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
~ Lawrence Block