Winos Quotes

• I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.

  Rick James

  Pimp, Looks, Faces

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Sep 27, 2013

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• I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait".

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Wine, Humor

  Live album: "Mitch All Together". Track 3 "Not Track Five, Not Chainsaw Juggler", December 9, 2003.

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• Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

  Louis Armstrong

  Cat, Sick, Littles

  "Louis Armstrong - The Reluctant Millionaire". "Ebony" Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 1, November 1964.

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• How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.

  Bill Hicks

  Drug, Dare

  Bill Hicks (2009). “Love All the People (New Edition)”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Number one, one, one on wonderful WINO.

  George Carlin

  Numbers, Wonderful

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• The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

  Thelonious Monk

  Musician, Majority, Juice

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• If you don't have an ego, you're a wino.

  Conrad Dobler

  Ego, Ifs

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• The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Pain, Work, Knows

  Song: The Wino And I Know, 1974

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• I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.

  Billy Joel

  Talking, Insanity, I Can

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• L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town.

  Ian Shoales

  Taken, Angel, Cities

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

  Dick Gregory

  Mother, Father, Oneness

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• I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sweet, Wine, Men

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.44, U of Nebraska Press

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• How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, People, Confusion

  Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah

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• Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!

  Nick Cannon

  Trying, Teach, Astrophysics

  Nick Cannon‏ @NickCannon, twitter.com. August 01, 2009.

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• There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

  Edward Abbey

  Wine, Night, Serious

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, God, Loneliness

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn

  Charles de Lint

  Sleep, Important, Looks

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.508, Macmillan

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