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They speak of my drinking but never think of my thirst
-Scottish Proverb
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Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.
-Anon.
Irish Proberb
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I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.
-Robert Benchley
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with it's just compounding the felony.
-Robert Benchley
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A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
-Jim Bishop
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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
-Jimmy Breslin
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Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.
-Truman Capote
Answered Prayers (1975)
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A new morality has burst upon us with some violence in connection with the problem of strong drink; and enthusiasts in the matter range from the man who is violently thrown out at 12.30, to the lady who smashes American bars with an axe. In these discussions it is almost always felt that one very wise and moderate position is to say that wine or such stuff should only be drunk as a medicine. With this I should venture to disagree with a peculiar ferocity. The one genuinely dangerous and immoral way of drinking wine is to drink it as a medicine. And for this reason: If a man drinks wine in order to obtain pleasure, he is trying to obtain something exceptional; something he does not expect every hour of the day; something which, unless he is a little insane, he will not try to get every hour of the day. But if a man drinks wine in order to obtain health, he is trying to get something natural; something, that is, that he ought not to be without; something that he may find it difficult to reconcile himself to being without. The man may not be seduced who has seen the ecstasy of being ecstatic; it is more dazzling to catch a glimpse of the ecstasy of being ordinary.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking
So pleasant on this side the grave;
It keeps the unhappy from thinking,
And makes e'en the valiant more brave.
-Charles Dibdin
Nothing like Grog
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Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
-Henry Fielding
Tom Thumb the Great. Act I Sc. 2
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
-Kahlil Gibran, "My Soul Is Heavy Laden with its Fruits"
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I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.
-Ben Johnson
Every Man In His Humor
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When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it...
-John Lennon
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I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in 14 days I lost two weeks.
-Joe E. Lewis
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Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
-Abraham Lincoln
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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
-Don Marquis
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The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.
-William Proxmire
In NY Herald Tribune, February 16, 1964
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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
-Sir Walter Scott
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
-Frank Sinatra
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Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
-Frank Sinatra
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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
-Oscar Wilde
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
-Henny Youngman
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Books about Drinking
