1. "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Benjamin Franklin James Monroe George Washington John Adams

2. "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Samuel Beckett Alfred Nobel William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway

3. "I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite." Lucille Ball Joan Rivers Bette Midler Carol Burnett

4. "It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth." Will Rogers Bob Hope Buster Keaton George Burns

5. "He was a wise man who invented beer." Socrates Tiberius Aristotle Plato

6. "If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine." Alec Guinness Oliver Reed Richard Burton Peter O'Toole

7. "I drink therefore I am." Will Rogers W C Fields George Burns Sam Hardy

8. "An alcoholic is anyone you don't like who drinks more than you do." Robert Burns Oscar Wilde Dylan Thomas Alfred Lord Tennyson

9. "I have two ambitions in life; one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth." Oliver Reed Kirk Douglas Peter O'Toole Spike Milligan

10. "I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up." Frank Sinatra Sammy Davis Jnr Jerry Lewis Dean Martin

11. "I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it." Bill Murray Robin Williams Rodney Dangerfield Bill Cosby

12. "I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep." Bobby Charlton George Best Diego Maradona Kevin Keegan

13. "What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." Diogenes Aristotle Pythagoras Isocrates

14. "A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle." Jonathan Swift Harriet Stowe Mark Twain Samuel Johnson

15. "Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough." George Bernard Shaw Ogden Nash Mark Twain William Butler Yeats

16. "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Ernest Hemingway F Scott Fitzgerald Frank Lloyd Wright John Adams

17. "I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop." Noel Coward Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alec Guinness Clifton Webb

18. "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Lord Alfred Douglas Walt Whitman Henry Longfellow Oscar Wilde

19. "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." Walter Huston Van Johnson Humphrey Bogart Lee Marvin

20. "Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world." Warren Beatty Rod Steiger Harry Dean Stanton Jack Nicholson

21. "You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover." Edgar Degas Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse Vincent van Gogh

22. "I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs." Stephen Baldwin Charlie Sheen Robert Downey Jr Keifer Sutherland

23. "I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy." Mel Blanc Bob Hope Fred Allen Jack Benny

24. "Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome." Joseph Kennedy Winston Churchill Benjamin Disraeli Queen Victoria

25. "Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs." Benjamin Franklin Ronald Reagan Thomas Jefferson Dwight D Eisenhower