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| “ | The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names. | ” |
| — F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925) |
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| “ | And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. |
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| — A. E. Housman A Shropshire Lad LXII. |
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| “ | You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest-lived. | ” |
| — Bernard DeVoto Harper's Magazine (December 1949) |
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| “ | ...good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. | ” |
| — William Shakespeare Henry VIII |
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| “ | Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. | ” |
| — Turkish proverb |
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| “ | If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you. | ” |
| — William Ewart Gladstone |
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| “ | Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. | ” |
| — Benjamin Franklin |
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| “ | Vodka Martini. Shaken, not stirred. | ” |
| — James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) |
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| “ | Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. | ” |
| — Francis Bacon Apothegms No. 97, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). |
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| “ | What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it... | ” |
| — Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975) |
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| “ | It is nice when you can sit back with some friends, drink some beer and have a good time. | ” |
| — Dave Matthews |
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| “ | There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion | ” |
| — Lord Byron Don Juan |
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| “ | Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. | ” |
| — William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Othello II. iii. (315) |
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| “ | Where I go, I hope there's rum | ” |
| — Jimmy Buffett Volcano from the album Volcano (1977) |
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| “ | I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. | ” |
| — Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Walden |
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| “ | I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer. |
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| — John Lee Hooker George Thorogood & The Destroyers (1977) |
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| “ | In victory I deserve Champagne, in defeat I need it. | ” |
| — Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| “ | Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery. | ” |
| — Euripides (485 - 406 BCE) The Bacchae [c. 407 BCE], l. 274 |
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| “ | Water is drank by the four legged beast; man prefers it with hops, malts, and yeast. | ” |
German Trinkspruch |
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| “ | When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired. | ” |
| — Gene Logsdon Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol |
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| “ | You shouldn't let children mix martinis. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. | ” |
| — Fran Lebowitz |