Drinking Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

  Knute Rockne

  Alcohol, Cocktails, Firsts

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• I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Work, Sleep

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 31, 1975.

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• When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Food, Wine, Alcohol

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.529

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• A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

  Dylan Thomas

  Clothes, Alcohol, Bars

  Dylan Thomas (1967). “Selected letters”

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• I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

  Stan Bowles

  Football, Thinking, Gambling

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• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Food, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

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• They who drink beer will think beer.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Witty, Beer

  'The Sketch Book' (1820) 'Stratford-on-Avon'

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• The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

  Artie Lange

  Sometimes, Drink, Moderation

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• China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, Coffee, Tea

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wine, Scotch, Alcohol

  "Facepaint, champagne and antelope skin - writers' oddball quirks revealed" by Charlotte Seager, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2015.

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• It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

  Bruno Heller

  Angel, Alcohol, Tongue

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• But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

  Oliver Reed

  People, Trouble, Drink

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• Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

  Ben Jonson

  Sorrow, Use, Today

  Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1811). “The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.149

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• Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

  Billy Carter

  Beer, Taste, Painting

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• Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Bars, Hospitality

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• Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

  Bill Cosby

  Glasses, Alcohol, Pouring

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• Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Eye, Beer

  "The Taming of the Screw". Book by Dave Barry, 1983.

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• Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Party

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• Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, People, Tea

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• Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

  Desi Arnaz

  Needs, Pressure

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• Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Wine, Men

  "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

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• I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hangover, Night, Men

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  In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

  George Best

  Alcohol, Minutes, Worst

  "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.

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• And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

  Tupac Shakur

  War, Thinking, Rapper

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