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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
    To heal my heart and drown my woe
    Rain may fall, and wind may blow
    And many miles be still to go
    But under a tall tree will I lie
    And let the clouds go sailing by”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #4
    Warren Ellis
    “Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!”
    Warren Ellis

  • #5
    Steve  Martin
    “Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
    Steve Martin

  • #6
    Chelsea Handler
    “I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.”
    Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

  • #7
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Good people drink good beer.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  • #8
    Frank Sinatra
    “Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
    Frank Sinatra

  • #9
    David Sedaris
    “We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”
    David Sedaris, Naked

  • #10
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

    [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #11
    Terry Pratchett
    “Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
    Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #13
    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #14
    Carson McCullers
    “Next to music, beer was best.”
    Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

  • #15
    Benjamin Franklin
    “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #18
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Heretics: The Annotated

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #20
    “If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”
    Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

  • #21
    W.C. Fields
    “Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #23
    Bette Davis
    “There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
    Bette Davis

  • #25
    “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.”
    Alex Levine

  • #26
    Matt Groening
    “To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems”
    Matt Groening

  • #28
    Jarod Kintz
    “I have liquid lips, and my kisses are smooth as wine. Why pour you a glass when you can drink from the bottle?”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #29
    Raymond Chandler
    “There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
    Raymond Chandler

  • #30
    William Faulkner
    “War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”
    William Faulkner

  • #31
    Darynda Jones
    “I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.”
    Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

  • #32
    Ogden Nash
    “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
    Ogden Nash, Hard Lines



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