Drinking Alcohol Quotes - Page 5

• Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

  David Cook

  Grief, Alcohol, Reactions

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• Next to music beer was best.

  Carson McCullers

  Funny, Music, Drinking

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

  Maya Angelou

  Trust, Drinking, Laughing

  "Maya Angelou: Best-Selling Poet Shares Story of Her Life and Work" by Brent Cunningham, www.buffalo.edu. April 30, 1998.

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• I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

  Richard Burton

  Drinking, Beer, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

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

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• I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

  Tom Waits

  Drinking, Alcohol, Problem

  Song: Bad Liver And A Broken Heart, Album: Small Change

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• What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

  Lord Byron

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  "The Deformed Transformed". Book by Lord Byron, 1824.

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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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• We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Drinking, Food, Health

  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Eating and Drinking"

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• He that drinks fast, pays slow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  1733 Poor Richard's Almanack, Aug.

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• I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

  Brendan Behan

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

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• I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lying, Drinking, Book

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.205, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.58, BookBaby

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• Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.

  Phyllis Diller

  Falling In Love, Drinking, Alcohol

  Phyllis Diller (1981). “The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young? And other silly questions”, Doubleday Books

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• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

  Candida (1898) act 3

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• I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Time, Drinking

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• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, House, Alcohol

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• There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.347, Bantam Classics

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  I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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  There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

  Bette Davis

  Drinking, Wine, Glasses

  "Fictional character: Kit Marlowe". "Old Acquaintance", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Baby, Motivational Sports

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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  Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Drinking

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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  An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

  Dylan Thomas

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations quoted by Nigel Rees. Fontana London (1987)

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• I drink to make other people interesting.

  George Jean Nathan

  Drinking, Book, Beer

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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