Quotes of the Week - May 20, 2008:
"I wish for the recovery of my daughter Kerstin, the love of my children,
the protection of my family and for people with heart and compassion."
-- Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman kept as sex slave by her father
for 24 years thanks people for their support in a handwritten message
on notice board in square of her home town.
"No foreigners allowed." -- Burmese police officer stops aid
workers from entering cyclone-stricken communities in Irrawaddy Delta.
"My wife wouldn't let me retire. She kicks me out of the door at
7am every morning. She's quite a formidable person." -- Sir Alex
Ferguson after his team Manchester United won Premier League title.
"I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
-- US President George Bush explains why he quite the game in 2003.
Topic: Alcohol Quotes - Famous Alcohol
Quotes, Quotations, Sayings
I drink therefore I am. W.C. Fields
I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without
touching a drop. Noel Coward
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in
the morning and that's the best they are going to feel all
day. Frank Sinatra
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential
food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. Alex Levine
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is,
I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. George Burns
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting,
sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
William Shakespeare Macbeth 2. 3
When money's tight and hard to get
And your horse is also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN. Flann O'Brien From the novel At Swim Two Birds.
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and
to drink, and to be merry. Bible Ecclesiastes 8.15
Here's to the perfect girl, I couldn't ask for more. She's
deaf 'n dumb, oversexed, and owns a liquor store. Drinking Toast
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be
no more cakes and ale? William Shakespeare
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be
happy. Benjamin Franklin
I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me. Brendan Behan
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and
when I'm not. Brendan Behan
I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars -
the rest I just squandered. George Best
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst
20 minutes of my life. George Best
I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken
in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication. Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde
I like my beer cold…my TV loud…and my homosexuals
flaming. Homer Simpson
Beer. Now there's a temporary solution. Homer Simpson
Ah, good ol' trustworthy beer. My love for you will never
die. Homer Simpson
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My achilles heel, if you will. Homer Simpson
Not one man in a beer commercial has a beer belly. Rita Rudner
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out
of me. Winston Churchill
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. Winston Churchill
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with
a merry heart; for God now accepted thy works. Bible Ecclesiastes 9. 7
Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend. Gerard Way
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love
your enemy. Frank Sinatra
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity
to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation
of life. George Bernard Shaw
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how
to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good
feeling. Frida Kahlo
Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately:
what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was
made to make men glad. Bible Ecclesiasticus
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. Bob Marley
Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse
who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now
bring on that damn cat! Eleanor Early
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. Seneca
Candy Is dandy, But liquor Is quicker. Ogden Nash
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second
is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the
girl's clothes off. Raymond Chandler
Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of
life's problems. Homer Simpson
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is
alcoholism. Norman Brenner
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions
like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into
the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs. Dylan Thomas
Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is
but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these
are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation. Lord Byron
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic
liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest,
and in every way best races of all times. George Saintsbury
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit
of a very dirty scoundrel. Robert Louis Stevenson
When the wine is in, the wit is out. Thomas Becon
So fill to me the parting glass. Good night and joy be with
you all. Traditional Irish song
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of
denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce
This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with
the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and
drink some more beer. Ernest Hemingway
Lady Astor: Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison
your drink. Winston Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I would
drink it.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Anonymous
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people
are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly
than they do in briefings and books. P.J. O'Rourke
I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
Lady Astor
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk
they're sober. William Butler Yeats
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society,
except that which makes to road safer, the beer stronger,
the old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in
the summer. Brendan Behan
Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one! Irish Saying
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have
it served in all the pubs in Ireland. J. P. Donleavy From the novel The Ginger Man
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