166 Good Drinking Quotes

Following is our list of good drinking quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about good.

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Famous Good Drinking Quotes

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! — Lord Byron

Water is the only drink for a wise man. — Henry David Thoreau

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. — John Stuart Blackie

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor. — Julius Caesar

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. — Jack Nicholson

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. — A.E. Housman

Good wine must drink together with a good friend. — Vietnamese Proverbs

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W. C. Fields

Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health) — Hildegard of Bingen

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough. — Chinese Proverbs

Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life — Drake

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over. — Mark Twain

Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough. — Zimbabwean Proverbs

Short Good Drinking Quotes

  • Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. — Lord Byron
  • One drink is just right, two is too many and three are too few. — Danish Proverbs
  • I drink because I'm thirsty. — Shane MacGowan
  • They who drink beer will think beer. — Washington Irving
  • Lets drink to the hard working people Lets drink to the salt of the earth — Mick Jagger
  • What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. — Diogenes
  • It pays to get drunk with the best people. — Joe E. Lewis
  • Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one. — Charles Bukowski
  • Of course one should not drink much, but often. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Top 10 Good Drinking Quotes

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. — Queen Victoria

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. — Jim Morrison

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain

I feel sorry 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

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is. — Billy Carter

Wake up and smell the coffee. - Ann Landers

Wake up and smell the coffee. — Ann Landers

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. - Enrico Caruso

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. — Enrico Caruso

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. - Aeschylus

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. — Aeschylus

Good Drinking Image Quotes

Good drinking quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Good Quotes

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg

I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates

Good drinking quote The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anyt
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill

Good drinking quote Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio CusinatiMaria Callas

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius

Good Friends Drinking Quotes

I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation. — James Hilton

I had been with a good friend, had a few beers, didn't bother to eat, went down to the hotel where the party was, walked in and, God I don't know why, because I hardly ever drink it, I had a double scotch. And I had another. — John Riggins

I prioritize in life. I like to work, I do TV shows, I do a lot of Iron Man training. I enjoy kicking back on a good night and drinking wine until I go to bed, and having fun with my friends. You just have to make time for it and keep it balanced. — Joe Bastianich

Good drinking quote Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why. — Henry Aldrich

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend. — Sue Grafton

That party last night was awfully crazy I wish we taped it I danced my ass off and had this one girl completely naked Drink my beer and smoke my weed But my good friends is all I need Pass out at three wake up at ten Go out to eat then do it again Man I love college. — Asher Roth

Good drinking quote Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies. — Joseph Addison

Good Drinking Water Quotes

When I fast, I don't drink coffee—at least for the first five days. Sometimes, as a treat, on days 5-7 of those longer fasts, I'll drink a black coffee... Truthfully, I think I do it just to break up the boredom. A black coffee has never tasted so good as it does on day 5 of a water-only fast. — Peter Attia

I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. Thats good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water. — Gal Gadot

Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up... there are too many people. — Doug Stanhope

Good drinking quote Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.

Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse — Sissela Bok

For mental and emotional health, quiet time is very important to me. I need a point in every day that I disconnect from all electronics and reconnect to my center. I pray and meditate. I drink a ton of water and believe in a good night's sleep. — Erica Tazel

Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me. — Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves

Good drinking quote Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not w
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only. — Henry David Thoreau

It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times. — Brigham Young

People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now. — Jay-Z

It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare. — Lee R. Raymond

Good Food And Drinking Quotes

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking. — Benjamin Franklin

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink. — James Whistler

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume. — John William Van Druten

Good drinking quote Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. — William Shakespeare

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer. — Ernest Hemingway

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. — T. S. Eliot

Good drinking quote There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.

I go to the healthier foods that are less chemically treated. I am drinking lots of water to get rid of the toxins in my body. It's a natural flushing. Water flushes your system and is also very good for your skin. — Aretha Franklin

I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which burns within me God! — Nikos Kazantzakis

It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks and drugs. We should not give them a chance to err. Try not to see them as beggars, but as God himself. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one. — Adele

Great Drinking Quotes

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

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! - Kenny Chesney

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Good drinking quote You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. — Salvador Dali

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. - Albert Einstein

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. — Albert Einstein

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur

Good drinking quote No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing. — Willie Nelson

I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off. — John Daly

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach

Safe Drinking Quotes

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care. — Kofi Annan

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. - Woody Allen

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. — Woody Allen

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land. — Luna Leopold

Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink? — Mikhail Gorbachev

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse. — Sherwood Boehlert

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either. — P. J. O'Rourke

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down. — George Bernard Shaw

Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise. — John Wilmot

The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed. — Carol Browner

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while. — Joseph M. Schenck

Eating And Drinking Quotes

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. — Mark Twain

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. - Sophia Loren

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Loren

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women. — John Daly

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. — George Carlin

There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat. — John Daly

I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time. — Robbie Williams

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. — Brendan Behan

Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet. — Jay Kordich

This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place. — Anthony Bourdain

Funny Drinking Quotes

The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it. — Lewis Grizzard

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

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. - Anton Chekhov

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. — Anton Chekhov

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. - Wilhelm II

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Wilhelm II

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives. — Kurt Cobain

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. — George Burns

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken - Colonel Sanders

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken — Colonel Sanders

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine. — Karl Marx

Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises. — Jim Jefferies

Irish Drinking Quotes

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. - Ed Mcmahon

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. — Ed Mcmahon

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce

In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here. — Frank Yankovic

Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet! — Groucho Marx

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not. — Brendan Behan

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me? — J. P. Donleavy

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. — P. J. O'Rourke

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. — Dave Barry

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN. — Flann O'Brien

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way. — Shirley Maclaine

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More Good Drinking Quotes

I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’ — Humphrey Bogart

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially. — Denzel Washington

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. — Denzel Washington

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen. — Charles Bukowski

True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company. — Sophia Loren

Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup. — Gertrude Stein

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. — John Wooden

My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love. — Christopher Doyle

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping. — Alberto Juantorena

Investors who leave their cryptocurrency in the custody of an exchange are like people who invest in Starbucks even though they don't drink their coffee. They might make good technical money, but their actual understanding of use cases and value propositions is questionable. — Nick Szabo

Nothing good happens after midnight — Sahil Bloom

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die. — Waylon Jennings

A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time. — Leonhard Rauwolf

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to. — Tim Tharp

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking. — Eugene Mirman

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management. — Michelle Williams

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness. — Andy Rooney

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. — William Shakespeare

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? — Cardinal Richelieu

To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good. — Charles Koch

The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death. — Odd Nerdrum

Smoking and drinking too much is not the way to fitness. Love your body and treat it good. — Sunny Leone

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman. — George Burns

One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn't about the addiction, but more so that I'm trying to let people have a good time at my shows and forget their problems. Relax and enjoy. There's not certain religions or politics sold on them. Just come out, have a beer, have a laugh, good energy from stage and have a good time. — Hank Williams III

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! — Matt Groening

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire. — Philip Larkin

My friend I wish health to you, I also wish wealth to you; I wish the best that life can give to you, And may dreams always come true to you. May fortune to kind to you, And happiness be true to you; And love be so sweet to you And life be long and good to you. And in this toast we give to you Our love we all give to you. — Willie Jolley

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