Quotes About Liquor

My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures—a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one—there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best. . . .

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The Nihilist intelligentzia had sustained the thesis that writing was merely a pastime like any other, an empty amusement of the writer like sports or liquor or whoring or what you will. I had never accepted that view.

The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences, in sad and sober privacy behind the scenes, will brew for the intoxication of their subjects.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

Perhaps the biggest misconception some managers may run into is the belief that correlation proves causation. The fact that one variable is correlated to another does not necessarily mean that one variable causes the other. If church donations and liquor sales are correlated, it is not because of some collusion between clergy and the liquor industry. It is because both are affected by how well the economy is doing.

As far as liquor goes, Im a hennessy man.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

He was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through illegal means.

Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.

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When the raw, harsh liquor had cut the dust from his throat he looked up at a nearby

December 14, 1790, one day after he jolted Congress with his call for an excise tax on liquor, Alexander Hamilton submitted another trailblazing report, this one a clarion call to charter America's first central bank.

In a Bombay street an urchin was distributing business cards. He took one. 'Are you alcohol?' it read. 'We can help. Call this number for liquor home delivery.' Excellent business model, he thought.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

I only drink wine, beer, and champagne. I've never had hard liquor, I've never had a whiskey drink in my life. I just don't like it.

Alcohol raises the risk for cancer, and so drinking wine or hard liquor should be done in moderation, if at all.

In the parlor I caught sight of my mother kneeling in front of a liquor cabinet, as though before an altar. "We could also use bourbon, sherry, vodka, and vermouth," she told her cell. I waved at her, since we hadn't seen each other in days. She saw me but ignored me completely. "Make it at least four Bulleits," she said to the phone. "Wait. Do they have the jumbo size?

Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.