Mark Twain Quotes about Drinking

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Drinking, Wine, Scotch

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

Mark Twain

Drinking, Wine, Labels

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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Mark Twain

Drinking, Night, Scotch

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Mark Twain

Drinking, Fighting, Water

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

Mark Twain

Funny, Kindness, Drinking

Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.8122, e-artnow

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Mark Twain

Drinking, Alcohol, Funny Beer

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Mark Twain

Drinking, Beer, Men

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

Mark Twain

Drinking, Beer, Politics

Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.151, Xist Publishing

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Mark Twain

Real, Drinking, Men