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Letter "B" » beverage
«Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank»
«The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.»
Author: Arthur Gray
| Keywords:
beverage, beverages, comfort, refinement, refinements, tea, Teas, The Spirit
«And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
beverage, beverages, blowing, bringing, bringing up, bring off, civil, coffee, crap, craps, fathers, founding, Founding Fathers, libertarian, libertarians, peoples, tolerated
«Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.»
Author: Thomas De Quincey
| Keywords:
beverage, beverages, coarse, nervous, ridiculed, sensibilities
«POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific --and without science we are as the snakes and toads.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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all ages, beverage, beverages, liquid, natural science, palatable, potable, preservative, preservatives, recurrent, snakes, suitable, toads, uncivilized, unscientific
«RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.»
«I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.»
«'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s»
«Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Food,
Funny
| Keywords:
beverage, beverages, food, frequently, kills
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