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Letter "D" » Drinking
«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»
«Responsible Drinking? Now that's an Oxymoron.»
«The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.»
«Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise»
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
floor, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating
«The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Behavior,
Drinking,
New Year
| Keywords:
culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, drunkenness, Eve, holiday, holiday season
«Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!»
«Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.»
«Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
frequent, repetition, satiety, thirsty
«The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.»
«My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Alcohol,
Drinking,
Life,
Rules,
Smoking
| Keywords:
alcohol, cigars, intervals, meals, prescribed, prescribes, rite, rule of, smoking, The Rite
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