"RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by……" — Ambrose Bierce
"RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience."
More Beverage Quotes
- I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. — Erma Bombeck
- Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. — Woody Allen
- And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any… — Dennis Miller
- After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to… — Mark Twain
- In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often… — Unknown Author
- Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with… — Pope Leo XII
- Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. — Alphonse Allais
- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as… — Thomas Jefferson
- Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities… — Sherwood Boehlert
- I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins… — Thomas Jefferson
- I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I've never used marijuana and I don't… — Pat Robertson
- Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of… — Thomas de Quincey