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    Drinking Quotations
    Drinking Quotations
    Drinking Quotations
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    Drinking Quotations

    By Jimi James

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    A collection with over 300 drinking quotations, from statesmen, politicians, writers, musicians, comedians, actors and more from the past to the present.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJimi James
    Release dateNov 4, 2012
    ISBN9781301426096
    Drinking Quotations
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    Jimi James

    Jimi James an expat living in Paris. He’s the bartender par excellence, with over 15 years experience and an undefeated record of winning the hearts and minds of the Paris bar scene. A master of surprise, he’s a wiz when it comes to cocktails, shaken or stirred, and he pulls the meanest pint in the City of Lights. Jimi is also adept at organizing events, from the corporate to the chaotic. Whether it’s a formal soirée or an evening of unruly fun, Jimi James has got you covered.

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      Drinking Quotations - Jimi James

      Part 1

      You don’t like jail?

      Naw, they got the wrong kind of bars in there

      - Charles Bukowski

      Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

      - Ernest Hemingway

      Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

      - Frank Sinatra

      I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

      - Mark Twain

      I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.

      - Tom Waits

      When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

      - Jimmy Breslin

      I drink to make other people more interesting.

      - Ernest Hemingway

      I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

      - Kelly McGillis

      For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

      - Friedrich Nietzsche

      Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

      - Winston Churchill

      I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on.

      - Oscar Levant

      A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn’t answer the phone.

      - Craig Kilborn

      A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

      - H. L. Mencken

      This is one of the disadvantages of wine:  it makes a man mistake words for thought.

      - Samuel Johnson

      Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

      - F. Scott Fitzgerald

      There are two kinds of people I don’t trust: people who don’t drink and people who collect stickers.

      - Chelsea Handler

      I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

      - Benjamin Franklin

      You know what ‘SOBER’ stands for ? It stands for ‘Son Of a Bitch, Everything’s Real!’

      - Gary Busey

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