"Wine is bottled poetry."
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"Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life."
"Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday."
"Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves."
"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable."
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
"There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it."
"It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind."
"A drink a day keeps the shrink away."
"Next to music beer was best."
"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."
"Imma sip until I feel it, Imma smoke until it's done."
"Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason."
"It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?"
"I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety."
"The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and throwing away money was a form of exhibitionism...wealthy men from out of town visited the clubs for appalling orgies of spending and drinking, and most of them seemed to think it was worth the cost."
"Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."
"It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture."
"Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic."
"Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them."