Drinking Quotes - Page 14

• The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

  Winston Churchill

  Scotch, Water, Effort

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

  George Gobel

  Uncles, Work, Beer

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• But Champagne is not drinking.

  David Niven

  Champagne

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• What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

  Glenn Sutton

  Loser, Milwaukee, Made

  "Song: "What's Made Milwaukee Famous"". May 1968.

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• We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

  Jon Corzine

  Community, Alcohol, Parent

  "Under age, under the influence" By Jean Weinberg, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2005.

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• If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

  Ed Koch

  Want, Pay, Ifs

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• Somebody's been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!

  W. C. Fields

  Pineapples, Juice

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• During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

  W. C. Fields

  Wine, Water, Lost

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• This one guy, the worst guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like a magician and doesn't do magic, I don't like. I don't even like magic, I hate it. But I love the word, "Ta-da"! I love that word! I don't get to say it, right? I never do any magic. You just can't go around walking, "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" The only time I can say it is when I do something really stupid or surprising. Like if I go out all night drinking and hitting strip clubs and I come home and I still got some money... "Ta-da!" I thought I was broke. Why does my jaw hurt?

  Dave Attell

  Hurt, Stupid, Hate

  "Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell". Documentary, Comedy, July 10, 1999.

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• I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Girl, Upper Class, Paris

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• Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

  Samuel Pepys

  God, Wine, Leaving

  Diary 26 January (1662)

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• My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

  Sean Connery

  Girl, Wine, Listening

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• Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Men, Way, Habit

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

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• Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.

  Philip the Apostle

  Orange Juice, Culinary, Champagne

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• 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

  John Selden

  Alcohol, Excess, Alcoholism

  "English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834".

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Wine, Scotch, Alcohol

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.

  W. C. Fields

  House, Alcohol, Bars

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• If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

  Henry Aldrich

  Food, Wine, Thinking

  'Reasons for Drinking'

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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Ignorance, Stupid People, Dope

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

  Chelsea Handler

  Party, Two, People

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.84, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Sick, Way, Study

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• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Years, Kyoto, Issues

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

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• To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

  Lorna Luft

  Marijuana, High Heels, Dressing Up

  Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Food

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• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Giving Up

  "The Business of Baseball". p. 61. Book by Albert Theodore Powers, 2003.

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