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Liquor Quotes

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

Billy Sunday, William A. Sunday (2009). “The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words”, p.96, University of Iowa Press

Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1722, Random House

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.322

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

1895 Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935), ch.23.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.171