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• (Those women whom the distaff
  no longer claims
  nor spun cloth)
  driven... More
• A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti... More
• A drunkard is a dead man
  And all dead men are drunk. More
• A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It
  ascends me into the brain,... makes it... More
• A little on the side—very little. More
• A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der). More
• A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man. More
• A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk. More
• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all... More
• A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is... More
• A soldier’s a man,
  O, man’s life’s but a span,
  Why then, let a soldier drink. More
• Ae market night,
  Tam had got planted unco right,
  Fast by an ingle, bleezing... More
• After wine, out comes the truth. More
• Alcoholism is a search for a common language, or at least, it is a compensation for a language... More
• All that is necessary to do with this drink is to place it in an open saucer on the window sill... More
• And I was yong and ful of ragerye,
  Stibourne and strong and joly as a pie:
  How coude I... More
• And malt does more than Milton can
  To justify God’s ways to man. More
• And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
  “I don’t care where the... More
• And Saints—to windows run—
  To see the little Tippler
  Leaning against the—Sun— More
• And then this word was heard: “Trinch.” More
• And we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet o’ the night. More
• As some heads cannot carry much wine, so it would seem that I cannot bear so much society as you... More
• Back and side go bare, go bare,
  Both foot and hand go cold;
  But belly, God send thee good... More
• Beauclerc: You’ve got a good memory for one who drinks.
  Eddie: Drinkin’ don’t bother my... More
• Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
  The rolling English drunkard made the... More
• Besides, you start drinking whiskey gambling, it gives you an excuse for losing. That’s... More
• Bourbon’s the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English... More
• Bring us in no browne bred, for that is made of brane,
  Nor bring us in no white bred, for... More
• Captain, down where I come from we dearly love our whiskey, but we don’t drink with a man... More
• Cole Thornton: What happened?
  Nelse McLeod: What usually happens to a man—a woman. Seems... More
• Come swish around my pretty punk
  And keep me dancing still
  That I may stay a sober... More
• Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. More
• Could man be drunk for ever
  With liquor, love, or fights,
  Lief should I rouse at... More
• Dead drunk
  is the term I think of,
  insensible,
  neither cool nor warm,
  without a... More
• Demagogue—a vessel containing beer and other liquids. More
• Dizzy: Say, don’t you think about anything but flying? When did the bug first bite... More
• Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the... More
• Don’t drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation. More
• Don’t you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a... More
• Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? More
• Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage. More
• Droplets of rain can soak through your clothes; goblets of wine can wash away your wealth. More
• Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices. More
• Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure. More
• Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
  Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
  Sagged and... More
• For Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail
  Always used to say that stout and ale
  Was good for a... More
• Friendship, “the wine of life,” should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed;... More
• Get some onions, they will make your eyes water. More
• Go, bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
  She strike upon the bell. More
• Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used. More
• Gup, Christian Clout, gup, Jack of the Vale!
  With Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale. More
• G’him a drink. Give him a drink. I said GIVE HIM A DRINK! More
• Hail them, and fall off. Fall off! The drink is not yours,
  it is not yours! You do not... More
• Hail, hail, plump paunch, O the founder of taste
  For fresh meats, or powdered, or pickle, or... More
• Has Michael Finn been in here today? More
• He degraded himself by the vice of drinking, which, together with a great stock of Greek and... More
• He set the jug down slowly at his feet
  With trembling care, knowing that most things break; More
• He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking. More
• Here’s that which is too weak to be a sinner,
  Honest water, which ne’er left man i’... More
• His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for... More
• I am so wrapped, and throughly lapped of jolly good ale and old! More
• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think... More
• I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am... More
• I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
  Life to the lees. More
• I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity. More
• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some... More
• I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I’m drinking more. More
• I love no roast but a nut-brown toast, and a crab laid in the fire;
  A little bread shall do... More
• I never drink—wine. More
• I never remember holding a full drink.
  My first look shows the level half-way down. More
• I perceive that you drink.
  (I am drinking with you. I am as drunk as you are.) More
• I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but... More
• I say—the future is a serious matter—
  And so—for God’s sake—hock and soda-water! More
• I taste a liquor never brewed—
  From Tankards scooped in Pearl!— More
• I think I’m going to have a drink. More
• I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That’s the one thing I’m... More
• I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles. More
• I was so sick last night I
  Didn’t hardly know my mind.
  So sick last night... More
• I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. More
• If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the... More
• If all be true that I do think,
  There are five reasons we should drink:
  Good wine, a... More
• If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would
  teach them should be, to... More
• If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I’d have killed myself long ago just to make people... More
• If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
  Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our... More
• If you want to quit drinking, just look at a drunkard when you’re sober. More
• In my youth I never did apply
  Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. More
• Inebriate of Air—am I—
  And Debauchee of Dew— More
• Is there any place on land or sea where there is no war?... Blackout. Blackout. Blackout.... More
• It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for... More
• It illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom,... More
• It’s up the spout and Charley Wag
  With wipes and tickers and what not
  Until the... More
• J.P. Harrah: What the hell are you doin’ here?
  Cole: I’m lookin’ at a tin star with a... More
• Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments. More
• Just because you sold your soul to the devil, that needn’t make you a teetotaler. More
• Let school-masters puzzle their brain.
  With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
  Good... More
• Let us drink anew to the time when you
  Were a tadpole and I was a fish. More
• Like an old brandy after a long rain,
  Distinguished, and familiar, and aloof. More
• Macduff. What three things does drink especially provoke?
  Porter. Marry, sir, nose-painting,... More
• Make it one for my baby
  And one more for the road. More
• Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are... More

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