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If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why. (Bristow Eric)
An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor. (Bristow Eric)
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. (Bristow Eric)
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking. (Bristow Eric)
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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. (Bristow Eric)
The whole world is about three drinks behind. (Bristow Eric)
Never accept a drink from a Urologist. (Bristow Eric)
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. (Bristow Eric)
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. (Bristow Eric)
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. (Bristow Eric)
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing. (Bristow Eric)
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. (Bristow Eric)
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. (Bristow Eric)
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. (Bristow Eric)
There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod! (Bristow Eric)
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. (Bristow Eric)
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. (Bristow Eric)
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. (Bristow Eric)
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. (Bristow Eric)
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world. (Bristow Eric)
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. (Bristow Eric)
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. (Bristow Eric)
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. (Bristow Eric)
I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. (Bristow Eric)
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. (Bristow Eric)
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