George Mikes Quotes

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

At the third cup, wine drinks the man.

Wine cheers God and man.

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

I can't drink if I have to get up early, man. It kills me.

There's nothing better than a cold beer.

Certain nights, when everything's perfect and we have thousands of people partying their asses off, I break my rule and have a drink onstage. I've never done a show drunk. Well, I take that back. In the early days I did.

Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.)

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.