Drinking Quotes - Page 7

• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  Pope John XXIII

  Birthday, Wine, Men

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• it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

  William Shakespeare

  Alcohol, Desire, Lechery

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• I drink to forget I drink.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Alcohol, Ironic, Forget

  "Miss Charming's Guide for Hip Bartenders and Wayout Wannabes: Your Ultimate One-Stop Bar and Cocktail Resource". Book by Cheryl Charming, p. 137, 2006.

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• I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Beer, Talking

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• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Alcohol, Mind, Liquor Funny

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.

  A. E. Housman

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Food, Beer, Water

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

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• Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Memories, Journey, Boring

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• By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

  Jo Brand

  Reading, Drug, Feelings

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• I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

  George Clooney

  Years, Training, Actors

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• I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer.

  Johnny Damon

  Beer, Weight, Way

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• I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Beer, Alcohol

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• Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.

  W. C. Fields

  Beautiful, Sleep, Drunkenness

  "Fictional character: Cuthbert J. Twillie". "My Little Chickadee", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

  W. C. Fields

  Lunch, Comedy, Weasels

  You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (motion picture) (1939).

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• I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Boys, People

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• Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Alcohol, Melancholy

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.5

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• The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Humorous, Memorable, Science

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• I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

  Robert E. Lee

  Scotch Whisky, Alcohol, Whiskey

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• My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Water, Suggestions, World

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

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• By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

  Aeschylus

  Water, Environmental, Literature

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• If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

  W. C. Fields

  Living My Life, Saloons, Ifs

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• I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.

  Paris Hilton

  Hate, Alcohol, Bulls

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• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  Walter Scott

  Greatness, Alcohol, Vices

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman”, p.663, e-artnow

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