Bars Drinking Quotes

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

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

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• Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Beer, Reality

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

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

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• Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

  Henry Lawson

  Party, Drinking, Beer

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• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Drinking, Taken

  In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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• Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sarcastic, Jobs

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Music, Morning

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• He that drinks fast, pays slow.
  Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
  There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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  You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

  Dean Martin

  Clever, Lying, Humorous

  In Paul Dickson Official Rules (1978) p. 112

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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, Drinking, Book

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

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• A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Drinking, Book

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  "Facepaint, champagne and antelope skin - writers' oddball quirks revealed" by Charlotte Seager, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2015.

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

  P.B. Kerr

  Blessing, Past, May

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• It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Money, Ireland And The Irish

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.288, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

  Drinking, Book, Fighting

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• I like my whisky old and my women young.

  Errol Flynn

  Drinking, Scotch, Whiskey

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• I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Strong

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• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Scotch, Water

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

  Frank Yankovic

  Beer, Heaven, Irish Drinking

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• I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humor, Water

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• A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

  Edward Abbey

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  Edward Abbey, R. Crumb (1985). “The Monkey Wrench Gang”, p.127, Dream Garden Press

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• There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Beer, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 452 (21 March 1776)

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• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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