My favorite drinking quote. What's yours?

[bif]

The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings.
-- Arthur Lewis

[MrCoffee]

1. Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Hemingway...

"Got tight on the absinthe last night. Did knife tricks."

[Rambis]

3. Ben Franklin

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Benjamin Franklin

[miss_american_pie]

4. Dylan Thomas

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

[bif]

5. Couple more

The hard part about being a bartender is figuring who is drunk and who is just stupid--Richard Braunstein

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer--Henry Lawson

[1gobluedem]

6. Robert Benchley

"Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini?"

[AllegroRondo]

7. Ben Franklin

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy."

[azmouse]

8. "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

-Henny Youngman

[BrotherBuzz]

9. Louis Jordan

So what's the use of getting sober If you're gonna get drunk again?

[trackfan]

10. Alex Levine:

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups --
alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

[Karmageddon]

11. 'Twas a woman who drove me to drink,

and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
~ W.C. Fields

[Karmageddon]

12. Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

[woofless]

13. And Malt does more than Milton can,

to justify God's ways to man.

A E Housman

[petronius]

21. It's not directly related to drinking, but I've always liked

The troubles of our proud and angry dust
are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

- A. E. Housman

[unsavedtrash]

14. "I will continue drinking to everyone's health until I ruin my own" n/t

[NC_Nurse]

15. "Alcohol:

The cause of and solution to ALL of life's problems."
-Homer Simpson

[ghostsofgiants]

16. "Win or lose, you're on the booze!"

I like to say it despite the fact that I don't drink.

[grannylib]

17. Tom Waits (at least, he's the first person I heard say this...)

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

[Left Is Write]

18. Dean Martin...

"Boy, you can live here, but don't eat here, I tell you. I just had a bowl of bourbon and some crackers, and they ain't layin' right..."

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. 'In vino veritas!'

~ some Latin dude.

Maybe the same one who said this:

[Roon]

20. Eat, drink, and be mary!

Sorry if you don't get this.

[CTyankee]

22. "Every man's got to believe in something, I believe I'll have another

drink." --W.C. Fields


Also, from anonymous:

"An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than his doctor."

[trof]

23. Dean Martin: "I feel sorry for folks who don't drink.

When they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're gonna feel all day."
yass
;-)

[av8rdave]

24. I was drowning my sorrows but my sorrows, they like to swim

U2

[av8rdave]

25. My other favorite...

"Hi, Bob!"

Those of you who have played the game will get it.

[hickman]

26. I don't know who said it,

Whiskey is God's way of keeping the Irish from taking over the world.

[Roon]

27. I'll have a shot of tequila please

Would you like salt and lime? NO TIME!!! SLURP!!!..Roon

[Luna_Chick]

28. Drink your Guinness, there are sober people in Africa

Can't recall where I saw that one..

And now, an old toast I do love:

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.
So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven

[qnr]

29. You're not drunk if you can lie on the ground without holding on with both

hands.

[joneschick]

30. Phil Harris

"I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver."

[Generic Brad]

31. California Peggy has a good one from Dorothy Parker

But she can relay it better than I can. I will allow her the pleasure of posting it.

[HuskerDU]

32. 'The only key I know is whiskey!' Harry Caray after Steve Stone

was talking about the key to the Cubs success.

'Someone put orange juice in my orange juice.' WC Fields

[suzbaby]

33. Never cry over spilt milk.

Spilt booze, yes, but spilt milk, no.

[trackfan]

34. Bogart, when told he had to spend the day with his son:

What can you do with a kid? After all, they don't drink.

[IndyBob]

35. The only toast of many I can remember from Maggie's

To your genetalia,

May they never jail-ya

[liberaltrucker]

36. I got friends in low places

Where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away
And I'll be OK.

I'm not big on social graces, think I'll slip on down to the Oasis
Lord, I got friends in low places

Garth Brooks.
:toast: