Drinking Quotes - Page 12

• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• To justify God's ways to man.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Way, Justify

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

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• I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

  Sylvia Plath

  Powerful, Thinking, Alcohol

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.8, Hamilton Books

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• Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

  Frederick The Great

  Coffee, Beer, Soldier

  "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.

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• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Scotch Whisky, Alcohol

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

  Ed McMahon

  Drunk, Alcohol, Ruling The World

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• Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

  John Dryden

  Army, Soldier, Navy

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Book, Humor

  "Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Beer, People

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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  I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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• I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

  Bill Gates

  Glasses, Water, Long

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  The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Book, Beer, Drunk

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• Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

  Gerard Way

  Coffee, Smoking, Alcohol

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• I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

  Oscar Levant

  Beer, Funny Sarcastic, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I drink to make other people interesting.

  George Jean Nathan

  Book, Beer, People

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
  But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
  Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
  ...beer is good enough for me.

  Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves

  Beer, Men, Should Have

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• Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Beer, Alcohol

  "Reflection on Ice-breaking" l. 1 (1931)

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• Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

  Lee Marvin

  Real, Limits, Tequila

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

  Josh Radnor

  Rocks, Decision, Made

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Beer, Intelligent

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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• 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

  Clever, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

  N. F. Simpson

  Food, Reality, Funny Sarcastic

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• My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Doctors, Mirrors, Alcohol

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.88, Zondervan

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• My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

  Bill Rodgers

  Motivational, Athlete, Water

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