Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
—Fran Lebowitz
[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
—Henry David Thoreau
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
—Heraclitus
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
—Homer
Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.
—Martin Mull
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
—Nancy Astor
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
—Oscar Levant
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
—Robert Benchley
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake—which I also keep handy.
—W. C. Fields
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
—W. Somerset Maugham