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• A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.

  Henny Youngman

  Drinking, Beer, Judging

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Motivational, Drinking, Beer

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Biographies

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 166 (31 March 1772)

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• I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Determination, Years, Savages

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• Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

  Peter De Vries

  Writing, Discipline, Elements

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Reuben, Reuben: A Novel”, p.242, University of Chicago Press

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• I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

  George Gobel

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

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

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• If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fall, Thinking, People

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

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• There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

  Franklin Pierce

  Presidential, Left

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• What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Love, Art, Women

  Curtains pt. 2 (1961)

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• I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

  Kenny Hickey

  Hate, Night, Years

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• I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Children, School, Juniors

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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, Drinking

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

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• There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink... but I can't think of one right now.

  Shemp Howard

  Drinking, Thinking, Alcohol

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Drinking, Thinking

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• I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Beer, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.87, Vintage

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• A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Alcohol

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 389 (24 April 1779)

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• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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• Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Quality, Body

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• It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Wine, Wish

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• All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

  Tracey Emin

  Life, Mistake, Inspire

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, People, Alcohol

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Mom, Looks, Drink

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Lying, Drink, Stills

  Thomas Love Peacock (1829). “The misfortunes of Elphin”, p.32

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