Drinking proverbs

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◆ Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ Next to music, beer was best.

- Carson McCullers99

◆ A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W.C. Fields99

◆ It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

- Chelsea Handler99

◆ I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

- David Sedaris99

◆ Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

- Frank Sinatra99

◆ Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ Good people drink good beer.

- Hunter S. Thompson99