Drinking Alcohol Quotes - Page 2

• When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

  Francois Rabelais

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Alcohol, Brain

  1603-4 Cassio, of wine. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.283-5.

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

  Robert E. Lee

  Drinking, Scotch Whisky, Alcohol

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• People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

  Ann Landers

  Drinking, Swimming, Beer

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• I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Drinking, Happy Friday

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka

  Cheating, Loneliness, Mean

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• Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

  Knute Rockne

  Drinking, Alcohol, Cocktails

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

  Walter Scott

  Drinking, Greatness, Alcohol

  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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• BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Alcohol, Four

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.29, University of Georgia Press

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• I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

  Bette Midler

  Drinking, Drunk, Perspective

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

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• It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

  Jim Morrison

  Drinking, Night, Gambling

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• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  Jack Nicholson

  Beer, World, Drink

  "Ageless Jack Nicholson Takes Youthful Holiday Splurge" by Moms Zhou, abcnews.go.com. August 5, 2009.

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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Ignorance, Stupid People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!

  Dean Martin

  Drinking, Beer, Hands

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

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• And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Food, Book

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

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• I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Funny, Pain, Memories

  Edgar Allan Poe, Simon Marsden (1988). “Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems”, Michael Joseph

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• Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

  Warren Ellis

  Sexy, Fun, Drinking

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• Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

  Nancy Astor

  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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• I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

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

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• Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Wife

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• If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.

  Joseph M. Schenck

  Lying, Drinking, Drunk

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• I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Fall, Drinking

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.88, Library of America

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

  Gerard Way

  Drinking, Coffee, Smoking

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• Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Alcohol, Funny Beer

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

  W. Clement Stone

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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