Drink Quotes - Page 24

• Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Theodore G. Tappert (2003). “Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel”, p.86, Regent College Publishing

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• Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Queens, Glasses, Alcohol

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 3, sc. 3

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• Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Long, People

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• That's what I do... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke... I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that's my twist.

  Beanie Sigel

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Girl, Advice

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• Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

  Neil Young

  Song, Hard Work, People

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• Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

  Douglas Coupland

  Children, Scary, Clown

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

  Ronnie Wood

  Real, Self, Creative

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• Basically, this guy was a saint, so we drink.

  Michelle Michaels

  Guy, Saint, This Guy

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• Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

  William Blake

  Summer, Art, Animal

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.72, Routledge

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• James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat meat.

  Hegesippus

  Mother, Strong, Brother

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• I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.

  William Halsey

  Military, Fighting, Men

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• Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

  Jules Michelet

  Coffee, Reality, Clouds

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• Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.... Drink some, a little time before or after a meal.

  Ellen G. White

  Water, Littles, Liquid

  Ellen G. White (1994). “Healthful Living”, p.226, TEACH Services, Inc.

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• Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

  Jimmy Cannon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be dead.

  Pauline Parker

  May, Tomorrow, Merry

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• Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!

  Chick Hearn

  Home, Water, Portland

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• I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Coffee, Grateful, Europe

  Jim Al-Khalili (2010). “Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science”, p.330, Penguin UK

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• Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!

  Octavius Winslow

  Sweet, Grief, Forever

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• My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

  Chanakya

  Children, Desire, Poison

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• If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don’t drink too much, don’t smoke, and don’t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.

  Ben Goldacre

  Real, Book, Writing

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• Never try to out drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.

  Jonas Jonasson

  Trying, Happens

  Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.

  Kevin Zraly

  Wine, Red, Ninety

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• My father never missed a drink in his life. Or a joint. Or a party. Or a chance to get laid. He also never missed a day of work, or a house payment, or a car payment. I never went hungry, although he did a couple of times so I wouldn't.

  Christopher Titus

  Couple, Father, Party

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

  Nelson Algren

  Fighting, Boys, Battle

  Nelson Algren (2010). “A Walk On The Wild Side”, p.26, Canongate Books

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