Cocktails and liquor have occupied a unique position in American culture for centuries. While not always positive, they have clearly influenced creatives and offered others an enjoyable diversion from the mundane. Recently I was interested in what some well-known celebrities felt about drinking. Fun and entertaining, here are few of my favorite quotes:

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.	Frank Sinatra
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.	Dorothy Parker
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.	Dean Martin
He knows just how I like my martini - full of alcohol.	Homer Simpson
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.	George Burns
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools.	Ernest Hemingway
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.	Steve Allen
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.	Benjamin Franklin
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor…	George Carlin
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric	Anton Checkov