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 | "A little learning is a dang?rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the
Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking
largely sobers us again." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Always do sober what you said you"d do drunk. That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut." | |
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Ernest Hemingway
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| "An alcoholic is someone who you do not like who drinks as much as
you do." | |
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Dylan Thomas
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| "Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of
society. If we"re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn"t
test people for drugs; we should test them for stupidity, ignorance,
greed, and love of power." | |
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| "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in
in malice." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all." | |
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Proverb
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| "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." | |
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Herman Melville
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| "Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I." | |
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William Oldys
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| "Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker." | |
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Ogden Nash
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| "Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to
be a hero must drink brandy." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor
observes a promise." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to
begin with, that it"s compounding a felony." | |
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Robert Charles Benchley
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| "Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is
merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Drunkenness is not a mere matter of intoxicating liquors; it goes
deeper, far deeper." | |
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David Grayson
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| "Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and
he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of
fish and he will eat steak." | |
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Jay Leno
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| "Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys" | |
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Allen W. Sherzer
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| "Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its
own punishment with it." | |
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Hannah More
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| "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts -- for support
rather than illumination." | |
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Andrew Lang
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| "I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I
think that I can drink With him that wears a hood." | |
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William Stevenson
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| "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their
good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be
too careful in the choice of his enemies." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of
me." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us
last night." | |
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John Heywood
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| "If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should
drink; Good wine - a friend - or being dry Or lest we should be by and by,
Or any other reason why." | |
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Henry Aldrich
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| "If I die I must, let me die drinking in an inn." | |
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Walter Map or Mapes
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| "If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun
in my holster, I"d carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck
cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He"s carrying a soldering iron!"
and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just
say, "That"s right, it"s a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."
Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun
of the soldering iron of justice." | |
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Jack Handey
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| "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to
think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and
sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." | |
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Thomas de Quincey
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| "It"s a naive domestic Burgundy, without any breeding, but I think
you"ll be amused by its presumption." | |
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James Thurber
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| "My illness is due to my doctor"s insistence that I drink milk, a
whitish fluid they force down helpless babies." | |
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W. C. Fields
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| "No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness ? or so good
as drink." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away
their brains; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause,
transform ourselves into beasts." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam.
Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and
subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of
understanding of this simple fact." | |
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Terry Pratchett
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| "One reason I don"t drink is that I want to know when I"m having a
good time." | |
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Lady Nancy Astor
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| "Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer, and denies you the
beer to cry into." | |
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Don Marquis
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| "RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total
abstainers." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Some of my plays peter out and some pan out." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the
point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "The lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!" | |
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George W. Young
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| "The secret of drunkeness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst
it unites us in feeling." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "There are more old drunkards than old doctors." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know
some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or
religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of
worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever,
and one of them is that he has taken to drink." | |
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Newton Booth Tarkington
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| "There is a devil in every berry of the grape." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the
ones who drink milkshakes don"t win many ballgames." | |
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Casey Stengel
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| "They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the
highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation
may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler
moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at
this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is
rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time
examined after they have been drinking." | |
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Herodotus
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| "Those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild
anarchy of drink." | |
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Ben Jonson
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| "Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Water is the only drink for a wise man." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." | |
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Trent Redman
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| "When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it
on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality." | |
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Al Capone
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| "When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of
Belial, flown with insolence and wine." | |
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John Milton
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| "Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently
there must be a beverage." | |
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Woody Allen
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| "Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart." | |
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Unknown
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| "Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That"s all
we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "Wine makes a man better pleased with himself; I do not say that it
makes him more pleasing to others." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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