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Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.”

Social Goal Drink Kissing Understood Drinking Alcohol Recovery Drank Hammered

Author:Stephen King

“One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.”

Needs Individual Deals Keys Drink Drinking Calm Disappointment Alcohol Mood Celebrate Symptoms Alcoholism Perks Calm Down Alcohol And Life

Book:Prescription for Herbal Healing

Source: Prescription for Herbal Healing

“Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.”

Country Felt Causes Pleasure Effects Drink Consequence Wine Intention Drinking Alcohol Accepted Drunk France Other Countries Spinning Drunkenness

Author:Roland Barthes

“The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.”

Inspirational Wells Littles Audience Intelligent Drinking Alcohol Educated Drunk Drunkenness Well Educated

Author:Alben W. Barkley

“Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.”

Needs Body Humor Funny Remember Rocks Health Drinking Glasses Alcohol Your Body Fluid Straight Up

Book:The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.”

Humor Funny Brain Drink Humorous Shame Wine Drinking Alcohol Cells Occasions Neglect Restraint Embarrassment Liquor Good Sense Selective Refreshments Brain Cells

Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.”

Ifs Men Humor Happens Funny Fool Drink Humorous Wine Drinking Alcohol Damn Fifty Whiskey Liquor Booze

Author:William Faulkner

“Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.”

Humor Funny Speak Given Pleasure Drink Humorous Wine Drinking Alcohol Drunk Bottles Fifteen Whiskey Liquor Drinking Whiskey Whiskey Drinking Whiskey And Love

Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

“In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.”

Men Ends Humor Light Running Funny Remember Asks Trouble Groups Drink Humorous Tasks Wine Drinking Complexes Alcohol Beer Cigarette Liquor Filters Beer Drinking

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.”

War Humor Funny Nations Drink Humorous Wine Drinking Available Alcohol Liquor Prohibition Great Depression

Book:Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway

Source: Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway

“Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.”

“It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'”

Ideas Week Drink Drinking Alcohol Wow

Author:Robin Williams

“It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.”

Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.”

Consciousness Revolution Commitment Empty Drinking Alcohol Smoking Milk Stamps Distribution Collecting Dope Postage Postage Stamps Greening Distribution Of Power Smoking Dope

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.”

Made Greater Progress Eating Drinking Alcohol Apprehension Temperance Clearness Eating And Drinking

Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.”

Remember Drug Drinking Alcohol Beer Budweiser

Author:Irwin Corey

“To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!”

“All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.”

Nations Humorous Drinking Beer Rays Beer Drinking Drinking Beer Brewing Brewing Beer Brewers

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.”

“Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.”

Country Hell Wind Judgment Devil Wine Drinking France Beer Germany Plague Pipe Thirsty

Author:Martin Luther

“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.”

Guy Food Drink Beats Sticks Drinking Alcohol Beer This Guy Good Beer

Book:To Have and Have Not

Source: To Have and Have Not

“In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.”

Tomorrow Drink Machines Balls Function Drinking Shoes Beer Sole Alleys Bowling Brewing Beer Bowling Alleys

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“I drink no more than a sponge.”

Funny Drink Drinking Witty Alcohol Beer Sponges

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.”

Made Dark Food Drink Cooking Drinking Refuse Made It Beer Culinary Daylight

Author:H. L. Mencken

“It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.”

Thinking Men World Dog He Man Drinking Beer Drinkers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I let my drinking do the talking.”

Talking Drinking Beer

Author:Humphrey Bogart

“Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.”

Streets Dancing Drinking Beer Parlor Saloons

Author:Groucho Marx

“Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me.”

Want Looks I Can Worry Drink Tables Drinking Beer Sweetheart

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.”

Done Problem Drinking Reputation Beer Things Done Getting Things Done Drinking Problem

Author:Brian Clough

“No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.”

Giving Matter Whole Happens Games Habit Giving Up No Matter What Green Golf Drinking Quitting Holes Cards Breakfast Never Giving Up Tees Golf Game

Author:Sam Snead

“To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.”

Habit Green Golf Drinking Quitting Breakfast Tees

Author:Sam Snead

“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working.”

Ifs Poverty Becoming Drinking Complaining Smoking More Time Jealous More Money Monopoly Millionaire Socializing Gina

Author:Gina Rinehart

“Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.”

“I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does all the things that hurt particularly the poor in our society.”

“The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.”

Men Drinking Sober Drunkenness Intervals

Author:Charles Lamb

“Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.”

Earth Feet Beats Drinking Drunkenness

Author:Horace

“And this should go without saying. That's why I'm going to say it: Drinking and driving don't mix. Do your drinking early in the morning and get it out of the way. Then go driving while the visibility is still good.”

Way Should Stills Morning Humorous Drinking Driving Visibility Good Humor Drinking And Driving

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.”

“He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Guy Stuff Party Crazy Mad Drinking Glasses Heavy Great Writers Drinking Party Skylights

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

“One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.”

People Ifs Should Funny One Thing Groups Drinking Christmas December Funny Christmas Christmas Carol Funny Holiday

Author:Louis C. K.

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”

Firsts Political Knowing Wine Meetings Drinking Opening Bottles Champagne Franklin Sparkling Great Drinking Best Wine Drinking Champagne Champagne Drinking

Author:Winston Churchill

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

“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.”

“A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.”

Answers Students College Months Drink Percent Drinking Phones Telephones Surveys College Students College Drinking College Days

Author:Craig Kilborn

“If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.”

Ifs Men Wells Mad Dancing Drinking Alcohol Breasts Rejoice Locks Woe Oblivion Caress

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)

“The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.”

Thinking Men He Man Drinking Alcohol Beer Idiot Jolly Drinking Toast

Book:Euripides: With an English Translation

Source: Euripides: With an English Translation

“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”

“Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.”

Giving Ends Loses Memories Walks Tree Sky Food Giving Up Eating Green Drinking Evening Remembered Delightful Sabbath Supper Eating And Drinking Green Trees

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

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