
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink
The Flight of the Duchess, xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink
“I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it.”
As quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 171
“Hip Hop is prosecution evidence/ The out of court settlement/ Ad space for liquor”
From "Hip-Hop"
Album Black On Both Sides
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 901
“Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.”
Source: "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" in Hard Lines (1931); this statement is often misattributed to Dorothy Parker.