Beverages Quotes

• I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.

  David Letterman

  Children, Men, Earth

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

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• One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

  John Milton

  Dream, Drinking, Alcohol

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.379

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• Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Drama, Wine, Romance

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• A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody.

  Erica Tazel

  Hurt, Laughter, Adults

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• The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

  Arthur Gray

  Tea, Comfort, Spirit

  Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.1, BoD – Books on Demand

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• For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Intellectual, Tea, Nervous

  "The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Including All His Contributions to Periodical Literature".

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• Coffee is the official beverage of culture.

  Andrea Illy

  Coffee, Culture, Officials

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• Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

  Louis Pasteur

  Food, Drinking, Health

  Etudes sur le vin Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. B

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• Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry - what color's hot right now.

  Howard Schultz

  Fashion, Color, Trends

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• I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.258

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• Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Medicine, Tea, Grew

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

  Alphonse Allais

  Coffee, Sleep, Espresso

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• If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Blessing, Before And After, Drink

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• Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Food, Humor

  Without Feathers "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" (1975)

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• Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Tea, Picnics, Literature

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Drinking, Food

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

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• There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

  Aleister Crowley

  Running, Alcohol, Risk

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

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• Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Country, Appreciation, Mean

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• Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

  Tom Robbins

  Made, Solace

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.263, Bantam

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• There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break.

  McLean Stevenson

  Thinking, Lunch Break, Should

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• Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Wine

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• Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Drinking, Community, Alcohol

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• The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.

  Pete Coors

  Drinking, Giving, Support

  Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.

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