“Great minds drink alike”

“Great minds think alike” is an old proverb. “Great minds drink alike” is a drinking variation that has been printed on many images. “Great minds drink alike” was a popular line in newspaper and magazine ads for Williams & Humbert sherry that were printed in many publications in 1963 and 1964.
   
     
Newspapers.com
7 May 1963, Evening Standard (London, UK), pg. 3, col. 3 ad:
Great minds drink alike
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WILLIAMS & HUMBERT
the sherries you’ll like
 
14 October 1964, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), pg. 18, col. 1 ad;
Great minds drink alike
and the sherries they like
are the sherries we sell
WILLIAMS & HUMBERT
Sale Agents:
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR $ Co., LTD.
 
Google Books
Twisted Wisdom:
Modern Anti-proverbs
By Wolfgang Mieder and Anna Tóthné Litovkina
Burlington, VT: University of Vermont
1999
Pg. 90:
Great minds drink alike. (Williams & Humbert sherry advertisement). (Punch, August 28, 1963: x; and November 6, 1963: xxii). 
   
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@thatchman1
Replying to @Sassycas
@sassycas great minds drink alike!!! Ha!
11:32 AM - 5 Apr 2008
   
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DanDeSantis
@DanDeSantis
Brian McDade shirt alert!  ‘great minds drink alike’
1:54 PM - 8 Jul 2008
     
The Smart Set
TONY’S SECRET CABINET 08/18/2008
GREAT MINDS DRINK ALIKE
The debaucherous get-togethers of humanity’s top thinkers.
BY TONY PERROTTET
If the Bacchanalia created a blueprint for our most depraved debauches, the ancients also bequeathed us its more elegant counterpart: the learned drinking party or symposium.
 
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Laurie
@Scarlet_B
Drinking a beer from a Colorado Brewery called The Great Divide   and on the cap is the phrase Great Minds Drink Alike ! hahahaha
9:08 PM - 21 Nov 2008
 
Google Books 
Great Minds Drink Alike
Virginia Reynolds
Peter Pauper Press, Inc., Jul 7, 2011 - Reference
It’s said that ‘‘In wine, there is truth.’’ In wine, and beer, and especially in martinis, there is also wit and wisdom. We invite you to raise your glass and toast the great literary minds of history-from Aristophanes to Frank Zappo-who could smooth away life’s rough edges with a bon mot and a belt of booze
 
Elite Daily
40 Clever Captions About Wine That’ll Make You Stop, Snap A Pic, & Smell The Rosé
BY KRISTIN CORPUZ
October 19, 2018
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9. “Great minds drink alike.” — Unknown
   
Reader’s Digest
32 Wine Puns That Are Really Grape
Hedy Phillips
Updated: May 03, 2021
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24. Great minds drink alike.