Drinking Quotes
These are some of the best 'Drinking' quotations and sayings.
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All excess is ill, but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
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Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
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It's a long time between drinks.
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Strong drink is not only the devil's way into a man, but man's way to the devil.
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
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The habit of intemperance by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes; and, were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office, would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?"
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The maxim, "in vino Veritas - that a man who is well warmed with wine will speak truth," may be an argument for drinking, if you suppose men in general to be liars; but, sir, I would not keep company with a fellow, who lies as long as he is sober, and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word of truth out of him.
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There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
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Water is the only drink for a wise man.
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Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them.
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