"You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble."
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"When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle."
"Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!"
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."
"Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another."
"I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!"
"I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed."
"I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce."
"Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache."
"Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand."
"A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect."
"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
"I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company."
"I take the juice of two bottles of whisky."
"Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?"
"I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle"
"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."