Drinking Quotes

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  That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beer, Order, Addiction

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  People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Attitude, Freedom

  "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 17, (p. 193), 1979.

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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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• My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Doctors, Mirrors, Alcohol

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.88, Zondervan

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• I drink to make other people more interesting.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Life, Bad Ass

  "How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Wine, Scotch, Alcohol

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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

  Scotch, Water, Effort

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

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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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  The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Book, Beer, Drunk

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• If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

  Henry Aldrich

  Food, Wine, Thinking

  'Reasons for Drinking'

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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

  W. C. Fields

  House, Alcohol, Bars

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Beer, Intelligent

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

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• Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

  N. F. Simpson

  Food, Reality, Funny Sarcastic

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• There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

  Oscar Wilde

  Occasional, Funny Drinking, Drink

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• It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

  George Burns

  Clever, Drunk, Alcohol

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• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Years, Kyoto, Issues

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

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• To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

  Lorna Luft

  Marijuana, High Heels, Dressing Up

  Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Food

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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

  Ignorance, Stupid People, Dope

  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'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Giving Up

  "The Business of Baseball". p. 61. Book by Albert Theodore Powers, 2003.

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• There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

  Chelsea Handler

  Party, Two, People

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.84, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Block, Humor

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Aug 23, 2011

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• But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

  Truman Capote

  Alcohol, Drug, Saint

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.273, Vintage

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• The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Sick, Way, Study

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