I’ve recently been writing some of my favorite quotations from different writers on the difficult art of writing. In the course of doing my research, I have to admit that I did imbibe a beer or two; and in so doing, I came across some fantastic quotes from a variety of sources on the extremely delicate art of drinking alcohol. Not surprisingly, writers (and others) love to speak eloquently about alcohol, almost as if alcohol is a lovely woman that should be admired or hated as the case may be.
Here are some of my favorite quotes on drinking (or not drinking) a variety of forms of alcohol. Some of the quotations are from writers, celebrities, and other people you may be aware of, but a few of the quotations about alcohol are from more obscure folks.
An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink. --Sean O’Faolain
I like liquor--its tastes and effects--and that is why I never drink it. --Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson
Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a sunny afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same. --Hugh Hood
I’ve never been drunk, but I’ve often been over served. --George Gobel
The whole world is about three drinks behind.--Humphrey Bogart
He is, like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him. --William Lyon McKenzie
I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. --George Bernard Shaw
He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much. --old saying
Alcohol is the cause and solution to many of life’s problems. --Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson)
I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me. --Winston Churchill
Alcohol may be men’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. --Frank Sinatra
Alcohol may be a good preservative for everything but brains.--Mary Pettibone Poole
If you need an excuse for why you don't drink alcohol, you could say that addiction runs in your family and you don't want to try it even once because you may not stop until you are dead in a puddle of your own vomit or smashed into the side of a mini-van with children's body parts scattered around your corpse. --Dwayne Alan Hahn
It only takes one drink to get me drunk. --The only trouble is I can’t tell if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth. --George F. Burns
What are your favorite quotes about alcohol?