Sip, Savor, and Reflect: 30 Inspirational Quotes About Drinking

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

- Ernest Hemingway

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- G.K. Chesterton

"I don't need alcohol to see the world in its depths, I carry the sun in me."

- Lamine Pearlheart

"Not drinking makes me a lot happier."

- Naomi Campbell

"When you quit drinking, you stop waiting."

- Caroline Knapp

"The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving anything up by not drinking."

- Liz Hemingway

"I do like to have fun. I don’t need alcohol to have fun."

- Rima Fakih

"That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end."

- Ringo Starr

"There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled."

- Ovid

"Life is important. There is nothing to hold onto. A man that drinks is throwing his life away. Don't do it, hold on to your life. There is nothing else to hold on to ..."

- Tennessee Williams

"Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself."

- Rob Lowe

"I’m not really the party person. I don’t ‘become myself’ once I’m drunk. I don’t use alcohol to be happy."

- Jessie J

"I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful."

- Jim Carrey

"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now."

- Charles Bukowski

"She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?"

- Toni Morrison

"I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike."

- Sylvia Plath

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail."

- David Sedaris

"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."

- Charles Bukowski

"Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I like to have a martini,Two at the very most.After three I'm under the table,after four I'm under my host."

- Dorothy Parker

"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

"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka."

- Jim Butcher

"It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."

- Steve Martin

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Frank Sinatra

"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."

- Terry Pratchett

"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."

- Anne Lamott

"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly."

- Winston Churchill

"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

"So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and if I were to be this empty I wanted something solid to sleep on. Like concrete. I am not this year and I am not your fault.I am muscles building cells, a little every day, because they broke that day,but bones are stronger once they heal and I am smiling to the bus driver and replacing my groceries once a week and I am not sitting for hours in the shower anymore. I am the way a life unfolds and bloom and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest winter into a field of green and flowers and new life. I am not your fault."

- Charlotte Eriksson