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  • When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

    Funny   Drinking   Humor  
  • Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

    Drinking   Beer   Men  
    'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179
  • I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

    Girl   Father   Party  
  • In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

    Sweet   Spring   Flower  
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”
  • If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?

    Funny   Humorous   Food  
    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.234, Ballantine Books
  • Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

    Strong   Drinking   Men  
    Charles Lamb (1856). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.271
  • Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

    Laughter   Fall   Mean  
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books
  • If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

    "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.
  • A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1548, Oxford University Press
  • Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

    Food   Drinking   Beer  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

    Sex   Hot   Passionate  
  • I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.

    Kids   Want   Cabinets  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

  • Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

    Truth   Lying   Drinking  
    Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”
  • It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid.

    War   Stupid   Fighting  
  • I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

  • I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my head. But there isn't enough liquor or art or any other distraction in the world to do it. I had to stop going to Wolfe's because it was too hard being that close to you, even if it was all just pretend fighting. I couldn't stand the touching. It was agonizing because it meant something to me-and I knew it meant nothing to you. I kept telling myself to stay away altogether, and then I'd find excuses… like the car… anything to be around you again.

    Art   Stupid   Believe  
    Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.323, Penguin
  • Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

    Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, c. April 1932.
  • Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want.

    Easter   Drinking   Beer  
  • Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

  • I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

    Conceited   Men   Doors  
    "Fictional character: Sarah". "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic", February 11, 2005.
  • I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

    Writing   Yield   Joy  
    James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”
  • When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.

    Regret   Men   Light  
    Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.165, Routledge
  • Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.

    Nice   Drinking   Adults  
    Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books
  • George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

    Character   Tvs   Liquor  
  • It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

    Girl   Football   Sex  
    J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”
  • First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing
  • I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

    Grief   Feet   Joy  
    Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.115, Harvard University Press
  • I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two

    Beer   Two   Able  
  • Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

    Time   Strong   Mean  
    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52
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