Quotes with drinking

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  • Thomas De Quincey Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • J.M. Coetzee Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
    1992
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Billy Carter Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
    Billy Carter
    American businessman, brewer, and politician (1937 - 1988)
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  • Samuel Pepys Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • William Nicholson The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
    Motherland (2012)
    William Nicholson
    British playwright, screenplay and novelist (1948 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley 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).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Samuel Johnson There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • L. Schefer They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Bob Dole We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Bob Dole We know [smoking tobacco] is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Kofi Annan We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
    Faceboek (2017)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • C. S. Forester When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    The African Queen (1935)
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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