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Quotes About Drink

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
~ Henry Rollins
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Dickens's enduring themes: the deleterious effects of ignorance and want, the necessity for charity, the benefits of goodwill, family unity, and the need for celebration of the life force, including the pleasures of good food and drink, and good company.
~ Les Standiford
Never cook with a wine you wouldn't drink," he said. "Though I guess that presupposes that there is a wine I wouldn't drink.
~ Lev Grossman
Skimmed milk was what they used to give to prisoners and workhouse inmates to go with their porridge and gruel. It's a punishment, not a drink.
~ Peter Hitchens
En minä halua kulttuurikriittisiä ja -poliittisia kannanottoja. Minä kaipaan kylmää ryyppyä ja terävää ajattelua.
~ Jarkko Laine
I took a sip of my drink. It tasted like old horse blankets soaked in urine.
~ Jasper Fforde
The fog grows stronger," she intoned in her prophecy voice. "The danger is coming closer. This storm will end in madness and death." North looked at her. "Out of curiosity, do you ever do happy, cheerful, positive-thinking prophecies?" "Sadly, not very often." Harmony fell back into her normal voice. "Certainly not lately. How about dinner and a drink over at the restaurant? It's lasagna night." "Sounds good," North said.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Var olmak susamadan içmek gibi bir ÅŸeydir.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.
~ Steve Jordan
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
~ Aldous Huxley
Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.
~ H. L. Mencken
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
~ Xun Kuang
I just wanted peace and quiet. So I waded into the ocean with a bellar in my hand. The waves were cold and kept smacking my clothes, higher and higher, until they knocked my drink out of my hand. Soon, my hair was wet and sticking to the back of my neck. Then I blacked out.
~ Tommy Lee
Ye faire consumer: know your brewer. Drink the work of people you personally relate to and have a reason to trust and want to support. Why not? You do become what you drink.
~ Unknown
There was a Catholic priest and the Seventh Day Adventist minister sitting together on one flight. The priest ordered a Scotch and water. The minister said, "I'd rather commit adultery than drink." The priest looked up at me and said, "I didn't know I had a choice today." That was a fun trip.
~ Unknown
Arctic snatched the last bright green drink from a passing tray and stared into it gloomily.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
He reflected on his hitherto reflection that soldiers and sailors were, upon the whole, quite different creatures. 'And perhaps they are, too: yet perhaps drink, in very large quantities, may make the difference less evident.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I saw a stranger yestreen. I put food in the eating place, Drink in the drinking place, Music in the listening place— And the lark in its song sang! 'Often, often, often, often, Comes the Christ in the stranger's guise.
~ Paul Theroux
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
~ Thomas More
In Senegal there was café touba, where the beans were mixed with selim and other spices during roasting, and sugar was added to the hot coffee—making a very sweet and aromatic drink.
~ Dave Eggers
She'd popped the Heineken open and drunk it.
~ David Baldacci