Drinking Quotes - Page 6

• I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Suicide, Drunk

  Charles Bukowski, “The Suicide Kid”

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• Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Motivational, Beer, Yield

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

  Retirement, Book, Golf

  "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

  Henry Lawson

  Party, Beer, Alcohol

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• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

  Jean Kerr

  Numbers, People, Sobriety

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• Beer is made by men, wine by God.

  Martin Luther

  Wine, Beer, Men

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• Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Beer, Reality, Alcohol

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• I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

  Bette Midler

  Drunk, Perspective, Alcohol

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

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• I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.

  Megan Mullally

  Women, Coffee, Wake Up

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

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• They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

  Casey Stengel

  Stars, Winning, Games

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• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wine, Beer, Alcohol

  Candida (1898) act 3

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• Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.

  Jerry Vale

  Scotch Whisky, Alcohol, Drug

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• Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

  Ogden Nash

  Heart, Glasses, Order

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

  Sonny Rollins

  Musician, Clubs, Able

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• Nor shall our cups make any guilty men;
  But at our parting, we will be, as when
  We innocently met.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Cups, Guilty

  1616 Epigrams,'On Inviting a Friend to Supper'.

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• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Dirty, Food, Naughty

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

  Winston Churchill

  Beer, Funny Sarcastic, Smoking

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

  George Best

  Food, Beer, Drug

  "Beating Them at Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer". Book by Patrick West, 2006.

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• I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jail, Bail, Bars

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• I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

  Diogenes

  Children, Hands, Saws

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• The piano has been drinking, not me.

  Tom Waits

  Music, Piano, Drugs And Alcohol

  Song: The Piano Has Been Drinking, Album: Small Change

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Food, Wine

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Food, Humor, Beer

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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