Alcohol Drinking Quotes - Page 6

• One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

  John Milton

  Dream, Drinking, Alcohol

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.379

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Alcohol, Brain

  1603-4 Cassio, of wine. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.283-5.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

  Kurt Cobain

  Funny, Humor, Alcohol

  143 Copy quote

• No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drinking, Beer, Animal

  All Things Considered (1908) "Wine When it is Red"

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Alcohol, Turns

  13 Copy quote

• He that drinks fast, pays slow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  1733 Poor Richard's Almanack, Aug.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Men, Wind

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source