| "Laugh and the World laughs with you -- drink and it does the
same."
- Tom Walls, An Anthology of Cocktails
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| "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to
perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink,
and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more."
- Proverbs 31: 6-7
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| "Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it
should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the
first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for
good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies."
- Joseph Addison
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| "Work is the curse of the drinking class."
- Oscar Wilde
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| "He that drinks fast, pays slow."
- Benjamin Franklin
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| "I envy people who drink, at least they know what
to blame everything on."
- Oscar Levant
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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
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| "I drink no more than a sponge".
- Francis Rabelais
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| "Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best
of life is but intoxication."
- Lord Byron
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| "Drink to me."
- Pablo Picasso's last words
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| "One can drink too much, but one never drinks
enough."
- Edward Burke
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| "It's never too early for a cocktail."
- Noël Coward, The Vortex
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| "Now is the time for drinking, now the time to
beat the earth with unfettered foot."
- Horace
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| "Everybody should believe in something -- I
believe I'll have another drink."
- Unknown
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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
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| "My books are water; those of the great geniuses
are wine. Fortunately, everybody drinks water."
- Mark Twain
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| "If the headache would only precede the
intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue."
- Samuel Butler
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| "The whole world is about three drinks
behind."
- Humphrey Bogart
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| "Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a
dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer
corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of
him."
- Mark Twain
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| "The hard part about being a bartender is figuring
out who is drunk and who is just stupid."
- Richard Braunstein
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| "Candy, is dandy, but liquor, is quicker."
- Ogden Nash
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| "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow they may
cancel your VISA."
- Unknown
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| "We drink and we die and continue to drink."
- Dennis Leary
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| "A bottle of wine contains more philosophy that
all the books in the world."
- Louis Pasteur
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| "Drinking makes such fools of people, and people
are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony."
- Robert Benchley
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| "The problem with some people is that when they
aren't drunk, they're sober."
- William Butler Yeats
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| "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave
up reading."
- Henny Youngman
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| "In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even
be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your
sole function will be to drink beer."
- Dave Barry
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| "I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than
a prefrontal lobotomy."
- Tom Waits
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| "Always remember that I have taken more out of
alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
- Winston Churchill
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| "I drink because she nags, she said I nag because
he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a
shrew."
- Ogden Nash
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| "Actually, it only takes one drink to get me
loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or
fourteenth."
- George Burns
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| "A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have
the decency to thank her."
- W.C. Fields
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| "You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried,
you float."
- John Barrymore
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| "People who drink to drown their sorrow should be
told that sorrow knows how to swim."
- Ann Landers
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| "I know the truth is in between the 1st and 40th
drink."
- Tori Amos
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| "Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the
operation of life."
- George Bernard Shaw
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| "The telephone is a good way to talk to people
without having to offer them a drink."
- Fran Lebowitz
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| "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be
drunk to spend time with fools."
- Ernest Hemmingway
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| "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
- Ernest Hemingway
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| "I drink to make other people interesting."
- George Jean Nathan
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| "If your doctor warns that you have to watch your
drinking, find a bar with a mirror."
- John Mooney
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| "A man is a fool is he drinks before he reaches
the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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| "I can't die until the government finds a safe
place to bury my liver."
- Phil Harris
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| "I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when
I have no occasion."
- Miguel De Cervantes
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| "He who laughs last, hasn't passed out yet."
- Unknown
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