“Smoke, drink and never think.”
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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“Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.”
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain
3rd September 2005, in a meeting of the PSOE federal committee whilst tabling a motion to increase tax on alcohol and cigarettes to finance health spending. <br class="br">As President, 2005 <br class="br">Source: Psoe.es http://www.psoe.es/ambito/saladeprensa/docs/index.do?action=View&id=58918 (Spanish)
“Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.”
Don Johnson (1949) American actor and singer
Cigar Aficionado: Life After Miami Vice http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,182,00.html
“Live, shit, drinking and smoking should be the daily bread of all poets.”
Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
“They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.”
Matthew Prior (1664–1721) British diplomat, poet
Upon a passage in the Scaligerana; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy
Source: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 1, "The Website of Dreadful Night"
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
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“Those that merely talk and never think,
That live in the wild anarchy of drink.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
XLVII, An Epistle, Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben, lines 9-10. Comparable to: "They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think", Matthew Prior, Upon a passage in the Scaligerana.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods
Tracey Ullman (1959) English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author and businesswoman
"Q&A: Tracey Ullman" http://www.newsweek.com/newsmakers-127011 (Newsweek, 19 September 2004)
Abbie Hoffman book Steal This Book
Introduction, p. v.
Source: Steal This Book (1971)
Context: Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying alive and free. That doesn't allow for cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.