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/Mark Goater

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
William Butler Yeats/Goats

An intelligent man like Goats is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Dean Martin

Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it.
Mrs. Wiggin

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.
 G.K. Chesterton

Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
Karen Strike

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.
Anonymous

I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.
Bill Wiggin

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
Goats re Elaine

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
W.C. Fields

Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
Anonymous

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
 --Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. --His reply

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
Anonymous

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
Tom Waits

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
Anonymous

When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
Sooooo, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven...
Brian O'Rourke