Quotes About Irish Drinking

#1. Like so many things in life, a well-poured pint of Guinness is worth waiting for.

Rashers Tierney

#2. In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people.

Tina Fey

#3. Where are you getting your material - Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking

Laura Lippman

#4. Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

Anonymous

#5. love-based thought that focuses on the possibilities and directs the situation toward a happy outcome.

Doreen Virtue

#6. Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

Alex Levine

#7. In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

Frank Yankovic

#8. I have less friends, but I have more Cadbury Eggs.

Greg Behrendt

#9. One book opens another.

C. G. Jung

#10. Germans found "American" (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy.

Donna R. Gabaccia

#11. The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.

Robert B. Parker

#12. Remember our wonderful memories, but please don't be afraid to make some more

Cecelia Ahern

#13. ... I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown.
- Give it a name, citizen, says Joe.
- Wine of the country, says he.
- What's yours? says Joe.
- Ditto MacAnaspey, says I.
- Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how's the old heart, citizen? says he.

James Joyce

#14. The illicit Irish homemade spirit, poitin was frowned upon by the Catholic Church, which made its manufacture grave enough of a sin to require a bishop's absolution rather than that of the regular parish priest. Ah, the lengths the Irish will go to for "the demon drink!

Rashers Tierney

#15. I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

Adam Brody

#16. They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. That guy, he has done some bad things against me. If someone is bad to me, I must be bad to them. You know why? Because if you didn't, that guy will think you are a pussy guy. And then he will be bothering you all the time. You have to go against him back, you know?

Jon Krakauer

#18. If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

Guy Kawasaki

#19. Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

Spike Milligan

#20. The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Maria Edgeworth

#21. There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

Brother Lawrence

#22. There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

#23. My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

Margaret Smith

#24. Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

Heinrich Heine

#25. I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.

Dov Davidoff

#26. God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Ed McMahon

#27. Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

Oscar Wilde

#28. To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.

Rashers Tierney