Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
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Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.
George F. Burns
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra
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Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.
Simon Fowler
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When treading London's well-known ground
If e'er I feel my spirits tire,
I haul my sail, look up around,
In search of Whitbread's best entire.
- Unattributed Author,
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: from "The Myrtle and the Vine"--A Complete Vocal Library--A Pot of Porter, Ho!
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And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell,
Who first invented this leathern bottel!
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: Leathern Bottel
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Drinking will make a man quaff,
Quaffing will make a man sing,
Singing will make a man laugh,
And laughing long life doth bring,
Says old Simon the King.
- Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: Old Sir Simon the King, referring to Simon Wadloe, tavern-keeper at the "Devil," Fleet Street, about
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Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.
William R. Alger
Quotes , Source: Oriental Poetry--Wine Song of Kaitmas
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Here
With my beer
I sit,
While golden moments flit:
Alas!
They pass
Unheeded by:
And as they fly,
I,
Being dry,
Sit, idly sipping here
My beer.
George Arnold
Quotes , Source: Beer
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Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale,
And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid.
James Beattie
Quotes , Source: The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 44)
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Nose, nose, holly red nose,
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;
And they gave me this jolly red nose.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Quotes , Source: Knight of the Burning Pestle (act I, sc. 4)
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If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we die.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Corinthians (ch. XV, v. 32)
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What harm in drinking can there be,
Since punch and life so well agree?
Thomas Blacklock
Quotes , Source: Epigram on Punch (l. 15)
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When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: The Flight of the Duchess (XVI)
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There's some are fou o' love divine,
There's some are fou' o' brandy.
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: The Holy Fair (st. 30)
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Inspiring bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!
Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;
Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: Tam o' Shanter (l. 105)
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And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 3,497), The Miller's Tale
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If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you
think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so
little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad
company by doing so."
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Quotes , Source: Principles of Politeness and of Knowing the World (sec. Sundry Little Accomplishments)
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