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Quotations by Subject: Drinking
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And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.: A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.: Bible, 1 Timothy v. 23.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.: Dean Martin
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.: Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.: Mark Ruffalo, In Style Magazine, 11-08
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Masquerade, 09-09-13
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943


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