Liquor Quotes - Page 12

• Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

  Henry Miller

  Use, Firsts, Navigation

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• ... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

  George Washington

  Strong, Army, Use

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.73

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• You’re a terrible cook. That I’ll grant you. You can’t hold your liquor, either. And you have questionable taste in men. So no, you’re not perfect.” His voice sank to a husky whisper, and his gaze dropped to her mouth. “But you’re close. Close enough to restore a man’s faith in miracles.

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Voice, Perfect

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• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Grief, Florida

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• It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Book, Gun, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

  Chuck D

  Rapper, Interesting, Alcohol

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• Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

  Simon Mawer

  Powerful, Grief, Guilt

  Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

  James M. Cain

  Girl, Distance, Years

  James M. Cain (1982). “The Butterfly”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Cities

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

  Mo Yan

  Talking, People, Literature

  Mo Yan (2013). “The Republic of Wine: A Novel”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

  Black Thought

  Weed, Rap, Smoking

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• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  Mal Peet

  Waiting, Liquor Stores, Bars

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• When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.

  Hal Turner

  Easter, Dad, Coffee

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• What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

  Charles Kuralt

  Dog, Southern, Jugs

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• Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

  Margaret Way

  Law, House Guests, Firsts

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• If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

  Mark Lanegan

  Drunk, Sick, Tears

  Song: St. Louis Elegy, Album: Blues Funeral, 2012

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• But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

  Jenny Lawson

  Choices, Childhood, Liquor Stores

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened”, p.16, Penguin

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• This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Sex, Hot, Passionate

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• Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

  Laura Joh Rowland

  Mind, Body, Dull

  Laura Joh Rowland (2007). “The Concubine's Tattoo”, p.229, Macmillan

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• The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Cups, Empty, Clean

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• I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

  John Waters

  Mean, Bars, Prison

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.137, Macmillan

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• I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

  Sarah Silverman

  Conceited, Men, Doors

  "Fictional character: Sarah". "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic", February 11, 2005.

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• We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

  Bill W.

  Attitude, Effort, Miracle

  Bill W. (2013). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.

  Faxian

  Country, Pigs, Vegetarianism

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