
“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss.”
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss.”
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
“Are we letting her drink beer again?"
"Hell yes we are, and it's hilarious.”
Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
“We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.”
Source: Styxx
“I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?”
Source: Mercury's War
Chap. 11, "The Fat Man"
Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Context: "We begin well, sir," the fat man purred … "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. … Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. … You're a close-mouthed man?"
Spade shook his head. "I like to talk."
"Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice."
“It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.”
Source: Fly Away
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep”
Source: Heist Society
No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
Context: Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
“I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.”
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Source: Magic Bleeds
Source: Kill the Dead
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking
“Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.”
Source: L.A. Story and Roxanne: Screenplays
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.”
Hi!
Source: Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People
Dates to 1899, American humor origin, originally featuring a woman upset by a man's cigar smoking. Cigar often removed in later versions, coffee added in 1900. Incorrectly attributed in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Glitter and Gold (1952).
See various early citations and references to refutations at “If you were my husband, I’d poison your coffee” (Nancy Astor to Churchill?) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/if_you_were_my_husband_id_poison_your_coffee_nancy_astor_to_churchill, Barry Popik, The Big Apple,' February 09, 2009
Early examples include 19 November 1899, Gazette-Telegraph (CO), "Tales of the Town," p. 7, and early attributions are to American humorists Marshall P. Wilder and De Wolf Hopper.
Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations, by Richard Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 578.
The Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2006, p. 155.
George Thayer, The Washington Post (April 27, 1971), p. B6.
Misattributed
Variant: Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.
Winston Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
Source: The Secret
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”
“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”
Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Source: The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism
“I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”
“Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.”
Variant: Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it!" -Michel Glass”
Variant: I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“The piano has been drinking, not me.”
"The Piano Has Been Drinking", Small Change (1976).
"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics
“I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.”
Source: McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
“The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink”
Source: To Venus and Back
“I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?”
Source: The Complete Short Stories
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves”
The Miracle of Mindfulness (1999)
Context: Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves—slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.
Variant: You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
Source: Gone Girl
“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”