No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him. — James Boswell
Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. — Billy Sunday
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. — Jonathan Swift
For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth. — Noel Coward
Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake. — Marian Burros
Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold. — Jerry Vale
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. — Jack Nicholson
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate — Tom Robbins
Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit. — Lee Marvin
Short Liquor Quotes
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. — Oscar Levant
Work is work and liquor is liquor. — German proverbs
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies. — Rush Limbaugh
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. — Tennessee Williams
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! — Lord Byron
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. — Graham Greene
Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment — Benjamin Rush
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. — Samuel Johnson
And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it — Black Thought
Liquor Image Quotes
Drinking Liquor Quotes
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
The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle. — Ginger Rogers
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. — Dudley Moore
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. — John Milton
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk. — Richard Burton
BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. — Ambrose Bierce
Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out. — Suzanne Collins
I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more. — H. L. Mencken
Hard Liquor Quotes
I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time. — John Huston
He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business. — Lisa Kleypas
Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap. — Brock Clarke
I don't drink hard liquor anymore, but I sometimes order Lagavulin just for the smell. It's so good. It's unbelievable. — Johnny Depp
Now, I'm mostly a beer man. When I drink hard liquor, it usually doesn't end the best, so I keep it chill with beer. — Chris Baio
Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief. — Simon Mawer
I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now." "I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar." "Flicka?" "I don't want to say her name." "So you're calling her horse names?" Ky coked a dark eyebrow. "I can't wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed. — Larissa Ione
Liquor Stores Quotes
There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did. — George Jones
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. — P. J. O'Rourke
But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with. — Jenny Lawson
Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club. — David Dinkins
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar. — Mal Peet
One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor. — Chuck D
I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes. — Warren Buffett
I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me! — Sayings
Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education. — Chris Rock
Alcohol Quotes
Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice. — Snoop Dogg
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them. — Bill W.
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore. — Dean Martin
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis
First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash. — The Notorious B.I.G.
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. — Albert Einstein
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
Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money. — Robin Williams
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — Anton Chekhov
Whiskey Quotes
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics. — Willie Nelson
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Wilhelm II
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games. — Casey Stengel
I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. — George Burns
Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps. — Alexander Fleming
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carry Nation
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carrie Nation
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend. — Louis Armstrong
Tequila Quotes
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor. — George Carlin
I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night. — Sammy Hagar
When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt. — Sanjaya Malakar
We should all believe in something, and I believe it's time for another shot of tequila. — Justin Timberlake
I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.' — Justine Bateman
Take life with a pinch of salt
A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime
Do nothing at all
But take your time — John Walter Bratton
I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people. — Anthony Bourdain
And no one drank just one shot of tequila. — Kristin Hannah
When life hands you lemons make lemonade. Then find someone who's life gave them Tequila and have a party. — Ron White
Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in. — Adam Duritz
Armed with Skip's hall pass, I walked outside to meet the bright sun wash and headed straight to the liquor store. I had one night of solitary drinking left, and I wasn't about to squander it. Because despite all the pain I had caused others, the bridges I had burned, and the misery I had brought upon myself, I still didn't want to let this life go. That, in a nutshell, is alcoholism. — Rich Roll
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. — Al Capone
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. — Fred Allen
You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time. — Coco Chanel
In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some. — Bernal Diaz del Castillo
It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid. — Morgan Freeman
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy. — James Boswell
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. — General Robert E. Lee
Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. — Morgan Freeman
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. — William Griffith Wilson
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. — Billy Sunday
When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime! — Brad Stine
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker. — Dorothy Parker
President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way - liquored up in a cheap hotel room. — Jay Leno
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. — Poppy Z. Brite
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic. — Billy Sunday
You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill. — James M. Cain
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. — Pharoahe Monch
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