Alcohol Quotes, Sayings about drinking

People have probably written as many words about alcohol as about any subject, aside from love perhaps. Thoughts about this controversial subject come in books, newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches or comedy acts, proving that there is a wide range of opinions and beliefs about alcohol. Some folks feel that wine, beer, whiskey and other liquors are the nectar of the gods while just as many will insist that alcoholic beverages are the work of the devil (demon rum). We also see this subject as humorous, on some occasions. Take in some of these great quotes about the subject of alcohol and drinking.

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Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Author: Frank Sinatra.

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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
Author: Seneca.

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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Author: George Bernard Shaw.

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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.
Author: Raymond Chandler.

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Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life’s problems.
Author: Dan Castellaneta.

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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Author: Marguerite Duras.

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Champagne costs too much, Whiskey’s too rough, Vodka puts big mouths in gear.
Author: Unknown.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Author: Seneca.

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Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic’s best friend!
Author: Gerard Way,

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Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Author: Bob Marley.

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
Author: Hunter S. Thompson.

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Alcohol removes inhibitions – like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: “Now bring on that damn cat!”
Author: Eleanor Early.

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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.

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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
Author: George Saintsbury.

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Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Author: Winston Churchill.