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Jim Gaffigan3 quotes
It's amazing how our attitude on alcohol changes, right? Cause even as a teenager you know it's wrong. You're like, "You know, I don't like the taste of it, but I want to look cool." And then in your twenties you're like, "You know what, this kinda gives me confidence to talk to the opposite sex." Then in your forties you're like, "You know what, this is the only thing I like about being alive." — Jim Gaffigan · 2014We go to bars so we can behave like children, toddlers, really. You ever go to a bar at 2am? You might as well be picking up a kid at nursery school. — Jim Gaffigan · 2014Really the only time to ever drink a shot is never. No one's ever drank a shot and then done something they're proud of. — Jim Gaffigan · 2014Lord Byron3 quotes
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication. — Lord Byron · 1819There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion. — Lord Byron · 1819Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. — Lord Byron · 1819Benjamin Franklin2 quotes
Drink does not drown Care, but waters it and makes it grow faster. — Benjamin Franklin · 1749Take counsel in Wine, but resolve afterwards in Water. — Benjamin Franklin · 1733Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin2 quotes
Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin · 1825Your true amateur sips his wine; as he lingers over each separate mouthful, he obtains from each the sum total of pleasure that he would have experienced had he emptied his glass at a single draught. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin · 1825William Shakespeare2 quotes
It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. — William Shakespeare · 1616I will make it felony to drink small beer. — William Shakespeare · 1594A.E. Housman1 quote
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man. — A.E. Housman · 1896Aeschylus1 quote
Bronze is a mirror of the face, wine of the mind. — AeschylusAristophanes1 quote
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes · 424 BCBill Wilson1 quote
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. — Bill Wilson · 1939Bluto1 quote
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily. — Bluto · 1978Charles Bukowski1 quote
When things are very very bad, a drink is the only magic cheap thing left to give you the dream, to make you feel good for a moment. — Charles Bukowski · 1981Dominic Toretto1 quote
You can have any brew you want...as long as it's a Corona. — Dominic Toretto · 2001Ernest Hemingway1 quote
A bottle of wine was good company. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Henry Aldrich1 quote
If all be true that I 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. — Henry Aldrich · 1689Heraclitus1 quote
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus · 480 BCHomer1 quote
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. — Homer · 700 BCHomer Simpson1 quote
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. — Homer Simpson · 1997Horace1 quote
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace · 20 BCJames Bond1 quote
Just a drink. A martini, shaken, not stirred. — James Bond · 1964John Gay1 quote
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous? — John Gay · 1728Louis Pasteur1 quote
Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur · 1873Macaulay Connor1 quote
Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whisky. Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes. — Macaulay Connor · 1940Maya Randall1 quote
I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing, how the sun was shining, if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes, and if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. — Maya Randall · 2004Mitch Hedberg1 quote
I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely screws up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999Poolside Woman1 quote
Beer leads to more beer. — Poolside Woman · 2007Raymond Chandler1 quote
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 · 1953Samuel Johnson1 quote
Claret is the liquor for the boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy. — Samuel Johnson · 1779Theognis of Megara1 quote
Wine is wont to show the mind of a man. — Theognis of Megara · 485 BCWilliam Faulkner1 quote
A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner · 1962William S. Burroughs1 quote
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror. — William S. Burroughs · 1959