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

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


I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment
No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

I drink to make other people interesting.
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya: You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now. Block the music and the people out to admire the love, The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club. And like marijuana shotguns, let's blow this joint, It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out.
That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before.
With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by

My manager said, "Don't use liquor as a crutch!" I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk.
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?