#drinking

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#dollars #drinking #earlier #easier #fifty

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. ↗

— Walter Scott

#greatness #incompatible #most #vices

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. ↗

— William Faulkner

#war #poor

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. ↗

— Pittacus Lore

#hector-ricardo #pittacus-lore #the-power-of-six #information

The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#drinking #humor #humor

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#drinking #drinking

When you quit drinking you stop waiting. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#drinking #sobriety #love

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar. ↗

— Drew Carey

#humor #jobs #life #humor

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. ↗

— Steve Martin

#humor #writing #humor