Great Alcohol Quotes - Page 4

• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

  Jean Kerr

  Drinking, Numbers, People

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• No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

  Drinking, Book, Fighting

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

  N. F. Simpson

  Drinking, Food, Reality

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• One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

  Nancy Astor

  Time, Educational, Drinking

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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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• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

  John Huston

  God, Drinking, Beer

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

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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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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• Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

  Henry Lawson

  Party, Drinking, Beer

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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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• A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Stupid, Drinking, Beer

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 June 1958

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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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• We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

  David Sedaris

  Drinking, Healing, Emotional

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Wine, Envy

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, Drinking, Tired

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Drinking, Wine, Alcohol

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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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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• There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

  Francois Rabelais

  Humorous, Drinking, Wine

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I always wake up at the crack of ice.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Ice, Alcohol

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• There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Doctors

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

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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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