Yesterday This Day’s Madness did prepare; tomorrow’s Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. (Omar Khayyam)
Alcohol Quotes
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. (Proverbs 31:6-7)
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Once while Noach was hard at work, breaking up the ground for a vineyard, Satan drew near and inquired what he was doing. On ascertaining that Noach was about to cultivate the grape, he at once volunteered to assist him in his task. He began to fertilize the soil with the blood of a lamb, […]
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. (Lady Astor to Winston Churchill) Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
You may compute the period when happiness is in season, which in my judgment, enters the room with the tea-tray. For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the […]
I’ll be sober tomorrow, but you’ll be crazy for the rest of your life. (in reply to an accusation of drunkenness)
I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. (Said during a lunch with the Arab leader Ibn Saud, when he heard that the king’s religion […]
Then trust me there’s nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e’en the valiant more brave.
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for.
