Good Quotes About Imbibing

[rabelais99]

As a teen I heard the obligatory "Through the lips and past the gums... Look out liver, here it comes!"

But a quote that I learned while a university student has stuck with me.

While a young man at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, I had the pleasure of meeting a mathematics professor who was on sabbatical. He was from Hereford, England, and went out of his way to show us brash young folk the civil side of partaking in drink. Stilton and Sherry on a Sunday afternoon. Port or a Scotch after a good steak. That sort of thing.

I never forgot a quote that he favoured:

When I sit upon it and think,
There are five reasons why we drink.
-Good friends,
-Good wine,
-Because we're dry,
-or Lest we should become so, by and by,
or
-Any other reason why!

This version attributed to Edward Bullman, Math Prof and Gentleman.

Does anyone else have a good quote from a friend?

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alan

 

[RexHavoc]

This is an old Scottish proverb "They speak of my drinking but never think of my thirst"

 

[Not A Nice Person]

My all-time favorite's my sig line---it's from Roger Sterling in Season 1 of Mad Men.

Love that show.

NANP™

 

[Lynchmeister]

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."

 

[Commander Quan]

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer”

-Frank Zappa

 

[ClubmanRob]

"I'm not in alcoholism! You guys are ****!"

- My cousin, while picking shards of glass out of his hair as he is getting picked up from jail, after getting drunk and running into a parked police car.

 

[DunEdinRanger]

"May God preserve us from any ills whisky can't cure." - Folk saying on Islay, an island off the west coast of Scotland with 8 working distilleries.

"If you must eat pizza, and drink beer, take small bites. The cheese comes up easier that way." Tim The Co-Op, Purdue '86

 

[Mazeman]

I have nothing to add, but this should be a good thread...

 

[Ru4scuba?]

I remember one from my Churchill studies...

Woman to Churchill: "You Sir are drunk!"

Churchill: "Yes madam, and you are ugly...but in the morning, I will be sober!"

 

[DunEdinRanger]

Allegedly at a state dinner, Mrs. Roosevelt said to him, "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I would poison you!" To which he responded, "Madam, if you were my wife, I would gladly drink it!"

 

[castlecraver]

"I spent a lot of my money on booze, [women], and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
-- George Best (English Footballer)

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day." -- Dean Martin

"He who has no vices has no virtues." -- Abraham Lincoln

 

[Ru4scuba?]

Allegedly at a state dinner, Mrs. Roosevelt said to him, "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I would poison you!" To which he responded, "Madam, if you were my wife, I would gladly drink it!"

Heard that one too...LOVED it. Mrs. Roosevelt did not like Churchill. Every time he crossed the pond she felt he kept FDR up too late talking, drinking and smoking and that he was all around a bad influence!

 

[razor_n_blade]

Here's to alcohol, the cause of—and solution to—all life's problems. -- Homer Simpson

 

[blackfoot]

Heard that one too...LOVED it. Mrs. Roosevelt did not like Churchill. Every time he crossed the pond she felt he kept FDR up too late talking, drinking and smoking and that he was all around a bad influence!

I like him more all the time.

 

[danek]

I should have never switched from Scotch to Martinis - Humphrey Bogart, reportedly from his death bed.

 

[Mysterion]

"I am a drinker with a writing problem."

--Brendan Behan

 

[Alacrity59]

I remember one from my Churchill studies...

Woman to Churchill: "You Sir are drunk!"

Churchill: "Yes madam, and you are ugly...but in the morning, I will be sober!"

Ha you beat me to this one. I love that quote.

 

[Brodirt]

I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. W.C. Fields and/or Tom Waits.

 

[TinFish]

"I make it a point never to smoke more than one cigar at a time" - Mark Twain

Oops. Wrong vice.

 

[bamafan64]

Pappy Boyington, the commander of the 214th Black Sheep Squadron in WW2, when asked if the Japanese tortured him during his ten month imprisonment-"Hell yes, they tortured me. I went ten months without a drink!"