Drink Quotes - Page 18

• Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

  Zachary Taylor

  Whiskey, Nonsense

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• I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.

  Ned Kelly

  Tea, Littles, Cups

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• Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

  Tim Powers

  World, Beast, Unlikely

  Tim Powers (2016). “The Ghosts of the Past: Three historical novels by Tim Powers”, p.186, Atlantic Books

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• The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.

  Che Guevara

  Race, America, Black

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• My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Joy, Solitude, Burning

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

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• Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Hope, Jesus

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• An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.

  Hernando Cortes

  Cities, Water, Purpose

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• What do drunkards do? They... drink... themselves... to... death.

  William Seabrook

  Drunkards

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• Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

  Herman Wouk

  Dream, Strong, Pain

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• Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

  James M. Cain

  Girl, Distance, Years

  James M. Cain (1982). “The Butterfly”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Life is a sport...drink it up.

  Michael Jordan

  Sports, Funeral, Life Is

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• You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.

  Cory Booker

  Real, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.

  Henning Mankell

  Wise, Lying, Rain

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 09, 2012

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• Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

  George Herbert

  Wit

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.227

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• It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it!

  Fred Phelps

  America, Church, Lips

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Applause, Constant

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.109, Macmillan

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• One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my body, Daddy, I can’t stop giving you hugs and kisses. And when I have no more love left, I just drink milk, because that’s where love comes from.’

  Bruce Feiler

  Daughter, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

  Jake Bugg

  Regret, Proud, Stuff

  Song: Two Fingers, Album: Jake Bugg, 2012

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• The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.

  Pete Hamill

  Lonely, Promise, Love And Friendship

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dry, Littles

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• I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

  James Crumley

  Reality, Two, Drunk

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.39, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

  Walker Percy

  Kissing, Car, Littles

  Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”

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• Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother, wife, and dear little children? Look upon your mother, wife and children, and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.

  David Walker

  Mother, Children, Believe

  David Walker (2011). “Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America”, p.30, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.

  Arturo Sandoval

  Sleep, Important, Listening To Music

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• The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

  James Branch Cabell

  Wine, Way, Rendering

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.107, Cosimo, Inc.

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