Quotes 81 till 100 of 115.
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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again;
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
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There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, ''Garcon! Un Pernod!''
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They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
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Those that merely talk and never think,
That live in the wild anarchy of drink.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
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To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried.
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Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
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We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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