Beer/pub/drink-related quotes
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Originally Posted by
Conrad
It is a new one on me as well, I think it must have been on another forum.
Feel free to start a new one here though, sounds like a great thread :).
Well, I couldn't find what I believed was already here, so here's a few decent ones provided via google search...
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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes. ~Author Unknown
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If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic. ~Author Unknown
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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ~Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~Samuel Johnson
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ~W.C. Fields
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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. ~Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856
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Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. ~Jack Handey
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. ~W.C. Fields
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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. ~Jean Kerr
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Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink. ~Author Unknown
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ~Samuel Johnson
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her. ~W.C. Fields
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Beer is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. ~Homer Simpson
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Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. ~Kin Hubbard
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I'd prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. ~Frank Nicholson, attributed
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. ~Henny Youngman
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ~Winston Churchill
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. ~W.H. Davies
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. ~James Thurber
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. ~P.J. O'Rourke
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
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For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. ~William Shakespeare ‘A Winter’s Tale’
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This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption.. Beer! ~Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck
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Payday came and with it beer. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. ~Henry Lawson
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Make sure that the beer – four pints a week – goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop. ~Winston Churchill to his Secretary of War, 1944
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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. ~Queen Victoria
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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
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24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? ~Stephen Wright
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Alright brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me, so just get me through this exam so I can go back to killing you slowly with beer. ~Homer Simpson
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Some see the glass as half full, others see the glass as half empty. I just wonder who the hell has been drinking my beer! ~seen on a T-Shirt in Portland, Oregon
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He was a wise man who invented beer. ~Plato
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