Drinking Quotes

Warnings and wit on drinking, from vice to old classic jokes.

These drinking quotes mix moral seriousness, like calling drinking incompatible with greatness, with classic humor, such as the old joke about a piano that has been drinking. An actor also describes drinking as preparation before sobering up to perform.


The range shows drinking treated both as a genuine vice and as material for lighthearted wit. Related discussions of self-control continue in Authority quotes.