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What's drinking?
A mere pause from thinking!
Lord Byron (The Deformed Transformed)
Burgandy Makes you think silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and champagne makes you do them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
There are plenty of luxuries; alcohol is the only one I can afford.
I am on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already
Tommy Cooper
Dear alcohol, we had a deal. You would make me more interesting and a good dancer.
Well I have seen the video. We need to talk!
- seaside poster
Wine is sunlight held together by water.
Galileo Galilei
Have a drink, I'll look better.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer
Frank Zappa
Alcohol - helping ugly people have sex since Babylon
If you don't drink how else will your friends know that you love them at 2am?
seaside notice
Reality is an illusion brought on by lack of alcohol.
Seb Protz
“Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....
Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin
Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table.
After four I'm under the host.
Dorothy Parker
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.
Compton Mackenzie
It does not matter if your glass is half full or half empty if you have plenty of glasses.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns
A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure.
a Czech Proverb
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
John Ciardi (1966)
Beer......making you see double and making you think you are single
You don't buy beer, you just rent it..."
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety
Shakespeare
Henry V
I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I have just started.
Brendan Behan
While beer brings gladness, don't forget
That water only makes you wet.
H.L. Wilson
They say that it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but couldn't some compomise be made, like being moderately wealthy and a little moody.
I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know.
W C Fields
I love to sing and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
George Burns
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henry Youngman
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it
W. C. Fields
Wine is bottled poetry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale.
Shakespeare
Twelth Night
Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for three days on nothing but food and water.
W C Fields
Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome
Winston Churchill
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
Dean Martin
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H L Mencken
I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais
I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food
in vino veritas
Pliny the elder
I drink so much that the last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
Rodney Dangerfield
Candy is dandy,.
But liquer is quicker.
Ogden Nash, Reflection on Ice Breaking
Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.
W C Fields
I'm not so think and drunk you I am.
John Squires.
“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
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Dr Johnson
“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it
Whisky is liquid sunshine.
George Bernard Shaw
A man who was found of wine was offered some grapes as desert. "Much obliged. I am not accustomed to taking my wine in pills."
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
Joe E. Lewis
Drink makes men hungry, or it makes them lie.
G. Wilkins, The Miseries of Enforced Marriage
Mmm ....beer
Homer Simpson
I always keep a supply of stimulants handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
WC Fields
Giannimi and I were adhering to the two key rules of third world travel:
1. never run out of whisky
2. never run out of whisky
Bill Bryson
A psychologist once said that we know little about conscience except that it is soluble in alcohol.
Thomas Blackburn
Let's get out of these clothes and into a dry martini
Mae West
I always wake up at the crack of ice.
Joe Lewis
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WB Yeats