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| A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. |
| Ernest Hemingway |
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| Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. |
| Herman Melville |
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| Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. |
| Robert Benchley |
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| Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold. |
| Will Durant |
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| Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst |
| Bible |
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| Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain -- Quaintest thoughts -- queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today. |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. |
| Homer Simpson |
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| I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. |
| Oscar Levant |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking |
| Michel de Montaigne |
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| Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. |
| Mark Twain |
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| The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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