Drinking Quotes

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Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls. — Charles Bukowski
I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out… — Charles Bukowski
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent?… — A. E. Housman
How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research. — H. L. Mencken
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. — Charles Bukowski
When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems. — Charles Bukowski
I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. — Charles Bukowski
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. — Winston Churchill
Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman. — George Burns
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet. — H. L. Mencken
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink — Ben Jonson
We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'. — Casey Stengel
We drink and we die and continue to drink. — Denis Leary
Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do. — Drew Carey
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. — Ed Koch
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. — George Best
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races… — George Saintsbury
My nerves could use a drink. — Grace Kelly
Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker — Miguel de Cervantes

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