Drink and Drugs Quotes
Drink and DrugsThe answer may not be at the bottom of a bottle, but it never hurts to check.Martin Luther, prime mover in the Reformation, married a brewer’s daughter and declared: “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!” "In victory you deserve champagne; in defeat you need it." (Winston Churchill) Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. Proverbs 31:6-7 Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. William Shakespeare Remember the ancient Persians; they never took a decision when drunk that they did not review when sober, and vice versa A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. W. C. Fields I drink therefore I am. W. C. Fields Beer gives you a reason to get up every afternoon. Beer is the Irish national drink and Another Beer is the Irish national affliction. What a marvellous thought you wise little thing. I think that's worth a celebratory glass. 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 What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. Diogenes A drink a day keeps the shrink away. Alcohol is the misunderstood vitamin. Drink is your enemy. Love your enemies. Real ale enthusiasts are the same as trainspotters, only drunk. The hard thing about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. Drinking is the only thing you don't get better at the more you do If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. Sophocles If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. Dean Martin If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. “It's better to burn out than fade away.” "It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth." "Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat." “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” ― Abraham Lincoln I like beer. On occasion I will even drink a beer to celebrate a major event such as the fall of communism or the fact that our refrigerator is still working. Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. I only drink when I get depressed. I only get depressed when I don't drink. "I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila." ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce "Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question." Lock 4 people in a room with alcohol and they'll fight. Lock them up with marijuana and they'll start a band. "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss." "I used to have a drinking problem. Now I love the stuff." "Alcohol may not solve your problems, but neither will water or milk." "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." — Ernest Hemmingway. "If, as they say, God spanked this town For being much too frisky, Why did He burn His churches down And save Hotaling's Whiskey ?" — Poem about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire, in which the city's largest whiskey distillery was left unscathed. "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent." — Reverent Billy Sunday at the beginning of Prohibition. "Red wine is just like ketchup: it goes with everything !" You ain't drunk if you can lie on the floor without hanging on. Joined Alcoholics Anonymous. I still drink but under an assumed name. In their family it's Alcoholics Unanimous. Alcoholic: someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. Of course we're not alcoholics - alcoholics go to those meetings. Take the juice of one bottle of whisky. Parties are where half the people don't know how much they've had to drink and the other half don't know how much they've said. Beer is greatest invention of mankind. The wheel is up there but it doesn't go as well with pizza. He's a light drinker - as soon as it's light he starts drinking. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila floor. She, pouring drink, "Say when". He "Right after this drink." I only drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not. They say if you drink every day you may be an alcoholic. Thank god I only drink every night. He may drink to forget, but he never forgets to drink. Trouble with whisky is it makes you feel like a new man. Then that man wants a drink. "Good Health!" It's what your friends are drinking to just before they fall over. She wanted gin, preferably straight, served in a vase. Baby boomers - spent half their lives hiding drugs from their parents and other half hiding them from their kids. Would you like some chardonnay. I make it in the toilet. Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route. Drugs have taught an entire generation the metric system. “One of the signs that you have an addiction problem is how well it works for you at the very beginning. It’s the thing that makes you say: ‘Damn, I like my life now.’ That’s when you know you shouldn’t do it again.” (James Taylor, in his autobiography) My mother was a moonshiner, and I love her still. Drown those feelings in alcohol, like a bag of kittens in a river. Whisky: the aqua vitriol of life Alcoholic: someone who drinks between drinks Man made beer, God made cannabis; which do you trust? The best political joke of the 1990s: Bill Clinton never inhaled; Jerry Brown never exhaled. |