Drink Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Wine, Glasses

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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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• There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.

  Ted Dekker

  Blood, Veins, Fountain

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.

  Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

  Running, Exercise, Night

  "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.

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• Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful? Yes, it's beautiful. I unscrew the cap and pour it into the toilet. I flush twice. And then I think, why did I flush twice? The answer, is of course, because I truly do know myself. I cannot be sure I won't attempt to drink from the toilet, like a dog.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Beautiful, Dog, Thinking

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.98, Macmillan

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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 best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Party, Home

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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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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• In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

  Cyril Connolly

  Together, Believer

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• Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Heart, Would Be

  Abraham Lincoln (1842). “An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln: Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield Illinois, on the 22d Day of February, 1842”, p.12

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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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• I had been with a good friend, had a few beers, didn't bother to eat, went down to the hotel where the party was, walked in and, God I don't know why, because I hardly ever drink it, I had a double scotch. And I had another.

  John Riggins

  Party, Beer, Good Friend

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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 Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed. But, all the way to St. Petersburg, the Finn will drink himself into forgetfulness, lose his money, horse, bridle, and return home poorer than a church rat.

  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

  Horse, Home, Wine

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• You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that spring, do not go near it. You will find another spring that pours from the lake of Memory, cool water gushes out of it. There are guards in front of it. Address these words to them: I am daughter of the earth and the star-covered Sky, and I descend from the Sky; and that you know; I burn and die of thirst; let me drink quickly of the cool water that gushes from the lake of Memory. And they will allow you to drink from the sacred spring.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Daughter, Stars, Memories

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• When I lose, I drink, and when I win I celebrate.

  Bo Belinsky

  Winning, Celebrate, Loses

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• Every time you drink an inferior bottle, it is as if you took a fine bottle and smashed it against a wall.  You can't get that bottle back!

  Len Evans

  Wall, Bottles, Fine

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• Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Running, Risk, Toxic

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• My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants. She listens to the news on the radio. She drinks her coffee. She has a quick wash. An hour later, at seven, her day is over. Two months ago a neighbour told her about your blog, and she asked me to buy her one of those thingummyjigs – by a thingummyjig she meant a computer. And since then, thanks to your trimmings, your ribbon bows, your tie-backs for curtains, she’s rediscovered the joys of life. So don’t tell me you don’t know any answers.

  Gregoire

  Mother, Morning, Coffee

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• In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read the newspaper. There is no loud music, and cats are in charge.

  Michael Showalter

  Coffee, Cat, Sweaters

  Michael Showalter (2011). “Mr. Funny Pants”, p.117, Hachette UK

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