Drinking Quotes - Page 9

• So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

  Sharon Olds

  Coffee, Marijuana, Smoking

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• I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Rain, Coffee, Talking

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• I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, Tired, Car

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• Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Food, Beer

  Major Barbara (1907) act 2

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• Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Alcohol, Insanity, Drunkenness

  Epistulae ad Lucilium LXXXIII

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• Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

  Billy Carter

  Party, Food, Home

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• Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Childhood, Lust

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• There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

  Robert Burns

  Divine, Brandy

  'The Holy Fair' (1786) st. 27

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Beer, Glasses

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Drunk, Alcohol

  "Fictional character: Paul "Fred" Varjak". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961.

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• Put it back in the horse!

  H. Allen Smith

  Horse, Beer

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• My nerves could use a drink.

  Grace Kelly

  Nerves, Use, Drink

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• The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

  Peter Buffett

  Gambling, Giving, People

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

  Phyllis Diller

  Falling In Love, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  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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• Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

  W. C. Fields

  Exercise, Hours, Shakes

  "The Temperance Lecture".

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• Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

  Winston Churchill

  Wine, Fighting, Gentleman

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• I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.

  George Burns

  Funny, Fall, Drunk

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• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Beer, Men, Giving

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• Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

  Abraham Lincoln

  President, Politician, Sucker

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• Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Alcohol, Literature, Orthodoxy

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
  A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
  So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Home, Beer

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• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Political, Politics

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• Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Healing

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• The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

  Martin Mull

  Sports, Running, Book

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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

  Beer, Alcohol, Desire

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

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