Irish Drinking Quotes

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!

Brian O'Rourke

Food, Fall, Drinking

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God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Ed McMahon

Drinking, Drunk, Alcohol

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Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

Roy Rogers

Farewell, May, Lord

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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brendan Behan

Love, Life, Important

Brendan Behan (1968). “The wit of Brendan Behan”

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Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

Gerard Way

Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Frank Sinatra

Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Witty, Work

Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

Brendan Behan

Drinking, Two, Alcohol

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats

Drinking, Food, Humor

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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Kinky Friedman

Beauty, Philosophy, Drinking

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In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

Frank Yankovic

Beer, Heaven, Funny Irish

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May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

P.B. Kerr

Blessing, Past, May

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

Oscar Wilde

Drinking

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Money, Ireland And The Irish

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.288, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Dave Barry

Book, Drinking, Beer

Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

Joe E. Lewis

Funny, Drinking, Humor

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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Mark Twain

Drinking, Beer, Men

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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

Saint George, Drunk, Apathy

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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

Brendan Behan

Addiction, Enough, Thousand

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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Brendan Behan

Summer, Beer, Winter

"Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.

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When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Flann O'Brien

Horse, Drinking, Men

Flann O'Brien (2011). “The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman”, p.118, Souvenir Press

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Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

Groucho Marx

Funny, Witty, Girlfriend

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Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

Wilhelm II

Funny, Kings, Women

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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

Love, Inspirational, Life

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