When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.

After a good meal one can forgive anybody, even one’s relatives.

Dear! It is better to be drunk and bright rather than sober and sick.

The sober man’s secret is the drunken man’s speech.

It is only the first bottle that is expensive.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Women, melons and cheese should be chosen by weight.

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.

Seeing is deceiving. It’s eating that’s believing.

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

God made only water but man made wine.

If you want to drink longer, then come earlier.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.

He who drinks gets drunk

He who drinks sleeps

He who sleeps does no sin…

He who does no sin goes to heaven

So let’s all get drunk and go to heaven.

Although it is better to hide our ignorance,

This is hard to do when we relax over wine.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.

To dispute with a drunkard is to dispute with an empty house.

Brandy is lead in the morning, silver at noon and gold at night.

There are two reasons for drinking :-

One is, when you are thirsty, to cure it;

The other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it….

Prevention is better than cure.

If all be true that I do think

There are five reasons

We should drink. Good wine

A friend ~ or being dry ~

Or lest we should be by and by

Or any other reason why.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well,

If one has not dined well.

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Drink! For you know not from whence you came nor why;

Drink! For you know not why you go nor where.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Drinking makes such fools of people and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Drink never made a man better…but it has made many a man think he was better.

Old age and treachery beat youth and skill every time.

The glutton digs his grave with his teeth.

Cheese – milk’s leap towards immortality.