鈥淢ay you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you鈥檙e dead.鈥 鈥 Traditional Irish toast
鈥淢eet you under the table.鈥 鈥 Traditional toast
鈥淭o our best friends, who know the worst about us but refuse to believe it.鈥 鈥 Traditional toast
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鈥淟et us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.鈥 鈥 Lord Byron (1788-1824)
鈥淚 always keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake 鈥 which I also keep handy.鈥 鈥 W.C.Fields (1880-1946)
鈥淏eer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.鈥 鈥 Benjamin Franklin (1706 鈥 1790)
鈥淒runkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.鈥 鈥 Bertrand Russell (1872 鈥 1970)
鈥淲hen I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.鈥 鈥 Henny Youngman (1906 鈥 1998) British-born American comedian
鈥淐laret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.鈥 鈥 Samuel Johnson (1709 鈥 1784)
鈥淎n alcoholic is someone you don鈥檛 like who drinks as much as you do.鈥 鈥 Dylan Thomas (1914 鈥 1953)
鈥淏eer glasses are by far the most common weapon of assault in Britain.鈥 鈥 Jonathan Shepherd, surgeon at University of Wales College of Medicine and an expert on alcohol-related assault
鈥淭he most expensive bottle of wine was sold at an auction at Christies, London, UK, in December 1985. The buyer paid 拢105,000 for a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafitte claret that was engraved with the initials of Thomas Jefferson. Eleven months after the sale, the cork dried out, slipped into the bottle and spoiled the wine, making it the most expensive bottle of vinegar!鈥 鈥 Guinness book of records 1999
鈥淭roublesome arguments take place in a third of British pubs at least once a month and fights break out in 6% of pubs every week. About 1 in 20 pub managers are assaulted every month.鈥 鈥 MCM Research, Oxford
鈥淒uring 1998, nearly a quarter of Australian men and a tenth of Australian women drove while under the influence.鈥 鈥 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
鈥淚n the US in 1995, alcohol-related costs in areas such as crime, health-care, policing and losses in industrial productivity amounted to $167 billion dollars.鈥 鈥 US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
鈥淭he strongest alcohol is an Estonian liquor distilled from potatoes between the two world wars. It is 98 per cent alcohol.鈥 鈥 Guinness Book of Records 2000
鈥淥ne in every 122 licensed drivers in the US was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in 1997.鈥 鈥 US Department of Transportation
鈥淎lcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.鈥 鈥 George Bernard Shaw (1856 -1950)
鈥淚f the headache preceded the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.鈥 鈥 Samuel Butler (1835 鈥 1902), English novelist
鈥淚t only takes one drink to get me drunk, but I can鈥檛 remember if it鈥檚 the thirteenth or fourteenth.鈥 鈥 George Burns (1896 鈥 1996)
鈥淭he heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy 鈥 the Tankard.鈥 鈥 C.S.Calverley (1831 鈥 1884), British poet
鈥淭hen trust me, there鈥檚 nothing like drinking, So pleasant this side of the grave; It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e鈥檈n the valiant more brave.鈥 鈥 Charles Dibdin (1745 鈥 1814), British actor and dramatist
鈥淭he first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.鈥 鈥 Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 鈥 1618)
鈥淢ay what goes down not come back up again.鈥 鈥 Traditional toast
