Drinking quotes
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"The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it."
"Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!"
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
"There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't."
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"Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball."
"I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host."
"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
"I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor."
"We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care."
"As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics."
"Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
"If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt."
"A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory."
"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
"I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem."
"Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine."
"My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing."
"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy."
"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."
"I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!"
"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."
