Great Alcohol Quotes - Page 5

• I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, Drinking, Tired

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Drinking, Wine, Alcohol

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

  Candida (1898) act 3

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• There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

  Francois Rabelais

  Humorous, Drinking, Wine

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I always wake up at the crack of ice.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Ice, Alcohol

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• 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

  Drinking, Healing, Emotional

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• Next to music beer was best.

  Carson McCullers

  Funny, Music, Drinking

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Doctors

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

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• An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

  Confucius

  Philosophical, Beer, Government

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