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Quotes About Drink

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
~ Mark Twain, 1898
I don't always drink peppermint schnapps — but when I do, I drink it at work.
~ Internet meme
Vodka is just awesome water.
~ Internet meme
You must be careful about giving any drink whatsoever to a bore. A lit-up bore is the worst in the world.
~ David Cecil
When I work as a beast, I drink as a beast. When I live like a man, I drink like a man.
~ Jack London
We go down the hall again, thank heaven, to my drink.
~ James Baldwin
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.
~ James Branch Cabell
He's crazy. All you goddamned hick cops are crazy. In the cities, man, the cops are usually just dudes doing a job of work, and some of them like it and some don't, some are good, some bad. But none of them think they're gonna save the world from evil. Hick cops always think they're John Wayne making the frontier safe for decent, God-fearing folk. That's why we're having this drink, man, 'cause you're a crazy cowboy.
~ James Crumley
To follow my meal, I'd drink a glass of my uncle's homemade apricot schnapps. He puts it in beautiful glass bottles and sells it at his local market in Austria. You don't normally drink with Asian food, so this would be a fitting end to the meal.
~ Rachel Khoo
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
~ Joe Bob Briggs
Can I just say that PBR is one of the most underrated beers of all time? And good God it's cheap.
~ Jemele Hill
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
~ John Stuart Blackie
I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted
~ George Best
I never turn down a drink. Among friends it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too.
~ Sholom Aleichem
[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.
~ Stephen L. Richards
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
~ William Shakespeare
Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.
~ Brock Yates
At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
~ Edward Rowland Sill
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
~ H. L. Mencken
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
~ Henry Fielding
Heineken refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach.
~ Terry Lovelock
We need everyone who suffers to be a victim because only thus can we maintain our pretense to universal understanding and experience the warm glow of our own compassion, so akin to the warmth that a strong, stiff drink imparts in the cold.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
~ Theognis
Pray to the Lord humbly, then, for this gift of sorrow; say, in the words of the sacred author, Lord, allot me for food, for drink, only the full measure of my tears.
~ Thomas a Kempis