‘If you resolve to give up women, drinking and smoking, you don’t
actually live longer, it just seems longer’
Sir Clement Freud
‘Abstinence is the thin end of the pledge’
Anon
‘Abstainer—a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying
himself a pleasure’
Ambrose Bierce
‘Giving up drinking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times’
Mark Twain
‘You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on’
Dean Martin‘
‘An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do’
Dylan Thomas
‘I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me’
Sir Winston Churchill
‘I’ve made a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink
after dark’
H.L. Mecken
‘A man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn
fool if he doesn’t’
William Faulkner
‘I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink.
That’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for’
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch’
W.C.Fields
'I saw a notice which said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've started'
Brendan Behan
'Starkle, starkle little twink, who the hell are you, you
think? I'm not under the alcofluence of incohol, I fool so feelish, I
don't know who is me. For the drunker I sit here, the longer I get'