Alcohol – Famous Quotations
"May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead." - Traditional Irish toast
"Meet you under the table." - Traditional toast
"To our best friends, who know the worst about us but refuse to believe It." - Traditional toast
"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after." - Lord Byron (1788-1824)
"I always keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy." - W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." - Hinny Young man (1906 - 1998) British-born American comedian
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do." - Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
"Beer glasses are by far the most common weapon of assault in Britain." - Jonathan Shepherd, surgeon at University of Wales College of Medicine and an expert on alcohol-related assault
"If the headache preceded the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue." - Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), English novelist
"It only takes one drink to get me drunk, but I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth." - George Burns (1896 - 1996)
"The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard." - C.S.Calverley (1831 - 1884), British poet
"Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant this side of the grave; It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave." - Charles Dibdin (1745 - 1814), British actor and dramatist
"The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness." - Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)
"May what goes down not come back up again." - Traditional toast
