Cheers to Wisdom: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Drinking Quotes

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"If I cannot drink bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven than I shall not go."

- Mark Twain

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off."

- Demi Lovato

"My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit."

- James Bond; Played By Sean Connery in the 1964 film "Goldfinger"

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

- Ernest Hemingway

"A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink."

- W. C. Fields

"I love to drink martinis. Two at the very most. Three I’m under the table. Four I’m under my host."

- Dorothy Parker

"I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate. And I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up."

- Babe Ruth

"If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world."

- Louis Pasteur

"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."

- Plautus

"When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink."

- François Rabelais

"A philsopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile."

- Tommy Dewar

"In vino veritas. In wine there is truth."

- Pliny the Elder

"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class, there seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warn-blooded to fall into this vice."

- Abraham Lincoln

"There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others."

- William Faulkner

"Whisky is liquid sunshine."

- George Bernard Shaw

"I don't drink anymore, on the other hand I don't drink any less either."

- W. C. Fields

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on ― it’s going on when you have no strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t―you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content, and sufficient Champagne."

- Dorothy Parker

"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"We're drinking my friend, to the end of a brief episode. Make it one for my baby, and one more for the road."

- Johnny Mercer

"Remember gentleman, it’s not just France we’re fighting for, it’s Champagne!"

- Sir Winston Churchill

"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

- Drew Carey

"Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak."

- Johnny Carson

"I can’t imagine how anyone can say: “I’m weak,” and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: “Because it’s so much easier not to!”"

- Anne Frank

"The darkest hour is only sixty minutes."

- Morris Mandel

"All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular."

- Al Capone

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."

- Galileo Galilei

"There is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant: A yellow, a mellow Martini: I wish I had one at present."

- Ogden Nash

"When a friend warned him that alcohol was slow poison, Robert Benchley replied, "So who's in a hurry?""

- Robert Benchley

"When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality."

- Al Capone

"They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am."

- Stephen Colbert

"Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

- Charlie Chaplin

"In wine, there is truth."

- Pliny the Elder

"I drink to the general joy of the whole table."

- William Shakespeare

"There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others."

- Raymond Chandler

"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety."

- William Shakespeare

"Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets."

- Dudley Moore in the movie "Arthur"

"I am a drinker with a writing problem."

- Brendan Behan

"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."

- Henny Youngman

"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth."

- George Burns

"I’ve never been drunk, but often I’ve been overserved."

- George Gobel

"One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor."

- George Carlin

"I went on a diet, swore off drinking, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks."

- Joe E Lewis

"I used to jog, but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass."

- David Lee Roth

"I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up."

- Dean Martin

"Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside."

- Jean Kilbourne

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt."

- Dean Martin

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

- Frank Sinatra

"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for."

- Irish Proverb

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."

- George Bernard Shaw

"First you take a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes you."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I drink to forget I drink."

- Joe E. Lewis

"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."

- Bette Davis

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."

- Ann Landers

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

- Saint Augustine

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"Beware of what you become in pursuit of what you want"

- Jim Rohn

"If you can conceive it and you can believe it then you can achieve it"

- Mohammad Ali

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can"

- Arthur Ashe

"You have two lives, the second one begins when you realize you only have one."

- Confucius

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

- Dorothy Parker

"I feel bad for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

- Frank Sinatra

"To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems."

- Homer Simpson

"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

- Homer Simpson

"Wine is bottled poetry."

- Robert Luis Stevenson

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right."

- Mark Twain

"Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe."

- Hunter S. Thompson

"When once asked if he ever stopped drinking, Humphrey Bogart replied, "Yeah, it was the worst afternoon of my whole life"."

- Humphrey Bogart

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."

- Joe E. Lewis

"Never could follow a man with a bottle, he’s a baby with a beard and not a feared role model"

- Chuck D

"Write drunk; edit sober."

- Ernest Hemingway

"...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth."

- Tom Waits

"One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough."

- James Thurber

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Where there is no wine there is no love."

- Euripides

"Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all."

- Lillian Hellman

"A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her."

- W. C. Fields

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."

- W.C. Fields

"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."

- Lady Astor and Winston Churchill

"There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

- John Candy

"Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I’m thirsty, not dirty."

- Joe E. Lewis

"If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon."

- W.C. Fields

"I drink too much because liquor stores are closed on Sundays."

- Homer Simpson

"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake."

- W.C. Fields

"Beer, its the best damn drink the the world."

- Jack Nicholson

"I work until beer o'clock."

- Stephen King

"I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around."

- Chelsea Handler

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?"

- Stephen Wright

"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a Champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer."

- George Bernard Shaw

"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap."

- Thomas Jefferson

"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?"

- Noel Coward

"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"The only thing I regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne."

- John Maynard Keynes

"Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life."

- Charles Dickens

"Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!"

- Martin Luther

"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."

- James Thurber

"Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the Champagne. The Champagne definitely improves the orange."

- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

"I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink."

- Richard Burton

"But Champagne is not drinking."

- David Niven

"I always wake up at the crack of ice."

- Joe E. Lewis

"What wine goes with Captain Crunch?"

- George Carlin

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn’t end there."

- Bucky Sinister

"No is a complete sentence."

- Anne Lamott

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Everything stays the same if the same is where you stay."

"If I’m enjoying my drinking, I can’t control it. If I’m controlling my drinking, I can’t enjoy it"

"The willingness to be a fool is the precursor to transformation"

"Drinking again means drinking alone again."

"Your future you needs you"

"All those people in your future, they are rooting for you right now."

"There is no problem so bad that drinking can't make it worse."

"I would rather be struggling in my sobriety than successful in my alcoholism."

"I feel better when I don’t drink."

"Not drinking alcohol has had no negative impact on my life."

"I will never wake up in the morning and regret not drinking"

"I Would Rather Go Through Life Sober, Believing I Am An Alcoholic, Than Go Through Life Drunk, Trying To Convince Myself That I Am Not."

"My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life does not have to come last"

"I will not be stealing tomorrow's happiness by drinking today."

"When I feel tempted I remind myself that I have a choice, a say in the matter. I don’t HAVE to give in. To drink is a choice as much as it is to not."

"All you have to do is not drink."

"One Day or Day One, You decide"

- Unknown

"I will not be alcohol's little bitch"

"Sobriety doesn’t open the gates of heaven to let you in. It opens the gates of hell to let you out."

"You can’t nail goals when you’re hammered"

"You can’t worry about what other people think. I mean come on, have you met other people?"

"One day at a time"

"1 is too many and 100 is not enough"

"Play the tape forward"

"Not today satan."

"You don’t crave a drink, you want a black out."

"Drinking tonight is just borrowing happiness from tomorrow"

"You’re not missing the party, there is no party."

"There’s never been a time I regretted not drinking"

"You see old people, you see fat people, but you don't see old fat people."

"You have the right to remain silent"

"If you're meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate with you"

"Don't let the monster out of the cage"

"Recovery is not a race. You don’t have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would."

"Alcoholism is to give up everything for one thing. Sobriety is to give up one thing for everything."

"A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure."

"Aye, but today's rain is tomorrow's whiskey."

"I only drink a little, but when I do I turn into another person and that person drinks a lot."

"Alcohol doesn't make you smarter. It makes you funnier."

"At first, a sober life seemed unnatural. We wondered what life could possibly be without ever taking a drink. But the longer we were in it, the more natural this way of life seemed."

"I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic, than to go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that I am not."

"To call yourself an alcoholic or a drug addict is a badge of honour, because the secret – the shameful secret – is the reason that it is such a pervasive illness."

"Recovery is about progression, not perfection."

"I have no power at all over people, places, and things, and if I ever for a moment mistakenly believe that I do, pain is on its way."

"‘Feelings aren’t facts’ tells me that my feelings are real, but they aren’t reality."

"Avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

"Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen. We must avoid quick-tempered criticism and furious, power-driven argument."

"You are selfish in your addiction, so you have to be even more selfish in your recovery."

"Boundaries are a part of self-care. They are healthy, normal, and necessary."

"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others."

"Your relationships with other people and the connections you make are very powerful in your recovery."

"The feeling of having shared a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us."

"Practical experience shows that nothing will so much ensure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics."

"Want to find out who your true friends are? Get sober."

"Friendship is a widely underrated medication."

"Don’t forgive them because they deserve forgiveness, forgive them because you deserve peace."

"We can never make peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

"One of the hardest parts was learning that I was worth recovery."

"When you think there is no hope and you feel broken, that is where the window to get better is. When there is nothing left to give, it’s time to hand it over."

"Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat is as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible."

"Don’t stay too long in the shame-filled grounds of relapse. Fertile soil awaits you in your recovery."