Quotes about drinking

"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews

Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 54
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

Of her role in Planet of the Apes.
Interview on Cinema.com, 2001 http://www.cinema.com/articles/547/planet-of-the-apes-interview-with-helena-bonham-carter.phtml

Plutarch Moralia, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry

Variant translation: Base men live to eat and drink, and good men eat and drink to live.
Plutarch

to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

Source: Women

Widely attributed to Luther, but actually is an example given in 1658 book Ἑρμηνεια logica https://books.google.com/books?id=2MxlAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA228| of faulty logic. In Latin:
Si vero termini in sorite sunt causae subordinatae per accidens, sorites non valet; ut ia hoc, Qui bene bibit, bene dormit; qui bene dormit, non peccat; qui non peccat, est beatus; ergo: qui bene bibit est beatus. Vitium est, quod bene bibere sit causa per accidens somni.
Translated via Fauxtations https://fauxtations.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/drinking-and-not-sinning/:
If, however, the conclusions in the sorite are subordinate by accident, the sorites is not valid; as in this one, He who sleeps well, drinks well; he who sleeps well, does not sin; he who does not sin, is blessed; therefore, he who drinks well is blessed. The problem is that to drink well is a cause of sleep only by accident.
Disputed

Variant: When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Launch.com, November 2, 2000<!-- site no longer exists -->

Variations of this piece have also been misattributed to Andy Rooney and Woody Allen. The original source is a variation on a piece by Sean Morey. ( "snopes.com: Andy Rooney on Everything", Snopes.com, 2012-09-09 http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney3.asp, )
Misattributed

As given in Rashid al-Din's Compendium of Chronicles (Jami' al-tawarikh) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami%27_al-tawarikh) (Can find a translated version on google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=d2SWstj6j3AC&lpg=PA142&ots=8Tn8g77BgR&dq=genghis%20khan%20and%20drinking&pg=PA142#v=onepage&q=genghis%20khan%20and%20drinking&f=false)

Anandamayi Ma, Ananda Varta Quarterly
By herself

Some Kind of Monster, 2003 - Talking about his addictions and big changes.

Source: "An Essay on Criticism", (1709)

Source: Three Comrades

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846 Vol I

"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).

Source: Women

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

"Role Model" (Track 9).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)

Letter to Maria Gisborne (1820), l. 302

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=60702 Blabbermouth.net (October 21, 2006)

Sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent, Luke 21:25-36 (1522) http://www.trinitylutheranms.org/MartinLuther/MLSermons/mlserms_original.html, as translated in The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther (1905) edited by John Nicholas Lenker

As I Please column in The Tribune (18 August 1944), http://alexpeak.com/twr/dwall/
"As I Please" (1943–1947)

1777; quoted by Bert L. Vallée, Alcohol in the Western World, Scientific American, Vol. 278, No. 6 (June), 1998, pp. 80-85

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 37
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 4

As quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It (1955) edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379

Extreme Championship Wrestling. July 4th, 2006.
This was Punk's debut on ECW television.
Extreme Championship Wrestling

On "Bozo", in Ch. 30
Down and out in Paris and London (1933)

Talking about drugs, quoted in **
Audioslave Era

April 7, 1779
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

Politics and the English Language (1946)

Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 17

If Only We Have Love (1957)
Context: If we only have love
We will never bow down
We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns.
If we only have love
Then we'll only be men
And we'll drink from the Grail
To be born once again;
Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars!

Interview on The David Frost Show (14 June 1969)
Context: We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war — all forms of violence. People just accept it and think 'Oh, they did it, or Harold Wilson did it, or Nixon did it,' they're always scapegoating people. And it isn't Nixon's fault. We're all responsible for everything that goes on, you know, we're all responsible for Biafra and Hitler and everything. So we're just saying "SELL PEACE" — anybody interested in peace just stick it in the window. It's simple but it lets somebody else know that you want peace too, because you feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Fablehaven

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Brida

Source: Thunderball

Source: The Museum of Innocence

Source: Notebook

Source: Squire

In 'Time' magazine (26 June 1950)
1950s

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Source: Nothing Like the Sun

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: The Color of Magic

Source: Macbeth

Source: Snuff

Variant: If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue

Source: The Waves

Source: Long Day's Journey Into Night

Source: I Lived to Tell It All (1996, ebook 2014), Page 205.

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Source: Goddess of the Sea

Source: City of Bones

Source: The Bell Jar

Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

It seems likely that the attribution to Twain is apocryphal. It is not listed as authentic on Twainquotes http://twainquotes.com/, and is not listed at all in either R. Ken Ramussen's The Quotable Mark Twain (1998) or David W. Barber's Quotable Twain (2002)
Misattributed

Source: I Hunt Killers

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Telephone, written by Lady Gaga, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Lazonate Franklin, and Beyoncé
Song lyrics, The Fame Monster (2009)

Source: John Barleycorn (1913), Ch. VI

Liebende … [w]enn ihr einer dem andern
euch an den Mund hebt und ansetzt –: Getränk an Getränk:
o wie entgeht dann der Trinkende seltsam der Handlung.
Second Elegy (as translated by Lee Siegel)
Duino Elegies (1922)

śaśāṅke kutaḥ śyāmatā jātā ।
pṛcchati jananīmatikutūhalādbālastribhuvanatrātā ॥
kṛṣṇamṛgastava śarabhayādvidhuṃ yāto naitanmātaḥ ।
kapaṭamṛgaṃ praṇihanmi nāparaṃ tasya vimohakhyātaḥ ॥
daśamukhabhayādbhuvo yātā yā vidhuṃ śyāmatā dṛṣṭā ।
kathaṃ rāhubhītoऽsau pāyānmahī mūḍhatāspṛṣṭā ॥
tvamatha vīkṣya candramasaṃ nijadayitānanarūpasamānam ।
śaśini gato śyāmaḥ kila dṛṣṭaḥ kartuṃ tadadharapānam ॥
nahi mātaḥ pīye tava stanaṃ śrutvā manujendrāṇī ।
sasmitamukhī vismitā jātā cakitā giridharavāṇī ॥
Gītarāmāyaṇam

Source: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. I