Drinking Quotes - Page 4

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  I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

  Johnny Carson

  Death, Sex, Health

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• Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy.

  W. C. Fields

  Thinking, Fields, Sissy

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• Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Art, Creativity

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• Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

  Robert Benchley

  People, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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  You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

  Dean Martin

  Clever, Lying, Humorous

  In Paul Dickson Official Rules (1978) p. 112

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Food

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cheer, Beer, Spirit

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• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Food

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• Take me down to the bar! We'll drink breakfast together!

  W. C. Fields

  Together, Bars, Breakfast

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• Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Girl, Beer, Kissing

  The Long Goodbye ch. 4 (1953)

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• Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

  Winston Churchill

  Wine, Knowing, Political

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• Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicide, Alcohol, Temporary

  "The Conquest of Happiness". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1930.

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

  W. Clement Stone

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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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, Book, People

  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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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Food, Wine, Water

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• Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.

  Benny Hill

  Reason, Mets, Drank

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• When the wine is in, the wit is out.

  Thomas Becon

  Food, Wine, Alcohol

  'Catechism' (ed. J. Ayre, 1844) p. 375

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• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Food, Wine

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, p. 659, 1791.

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• It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

  David Bailey

  Exercise, Body, Dull

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• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Weed, Hate, Beer

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 15, 2014

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• A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

  Edward Abbey

  Beer, Drunk, Shrinks

  Edward Abbey, R. Crumb (1985). “The Monkey Wrench Gang”, p.127, Dream Garden Press

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• Excuse me please, one more drink
  Could you make it strong cause I don't need to think
  She broke my heart, my grace is gone
  One more drink and I'll move on.

  Dave Matthews

  Strong, Moving, Heart

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• Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Wine, Humor

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• There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Wine, Two, Prevention

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• Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Travel, Book, Wine

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