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Mart's Favourite Drinking Quotations


I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

Noel Coward

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

William Shakespeare

I drink therefore I am.

W.C. Fields

A woman drove me to drink - and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her.

W.C. Fields

Beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder.

W.C. Fields

I exercise strong self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

W.C.Fields

What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?

W.C.Fields

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they are going to feel all day.

Dean Martin

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

N.F.Simpson

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

He once had his toes amputated so that he could stand closer to the bar.

Mike Harding

The trouble with him is when he is not drunk he is sober.

W.B.Yeats

The AAAA is a new organisation for drunks who drive. Give them a call and they'll tow you away from the bar.

Martin Burden

Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.

Jerry Vale

Your superego is that part of you which is soluble in alcohol.

Thomas L. Martin

I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver.

Phil Harris

Actually, it only takes one drink to get me drunk. The only trouble is I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

George Burns

Moonshine corn liquor has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.

Irvin Cobb

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe E. Lewis

There are just two reasons for drinking. One is when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Thomas Love Peacock

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