Saturday, February 14, 2009

Collected Wisdom of Turlough O'Connor

I drink to forget, but I never forget to drink. — Anon.

Beer. So much more than just a breakfast drink! — Anon.

When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. — Jack Handey

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools. — Ernest Hemingway

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. — Anon.

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

He was a wise man who invented beer. — Plato

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. — Thomas de Quincey

Work is the curse of the drinking class. — Oscar Wilde

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. — Humphrey Bogart

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? — W.C. Fields

Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire. — David Rains Wallace

Woody: Little early in the day for a beer, isn’t it, Norm?
Norm: So float a corn flake in it.
— Cheers

The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober. — William Butler Yeats

To drink without thirst and to make love all the time, madam, it is only these which distinguish us from the other beasts. — Beaumarchais

Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. — Alex Levine

Abstinence is a good thing if practiced in moderation. — Anon.

God grant me chastity and temperance, but not just yet. — St. Augustine

Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can’t say it. — Anon.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. — W.C. Fields

Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time. — Catherine Zandonella

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation. — William Blake

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
— Dean Martin

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. — Winston Churchill

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. — Benjamin Franklin

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Kaiser Wilhelm

I drink to make other people interesting. — George Jean Nathan

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler

There is nothing for a case of nerves like a case of beer. — Joan Goldstein

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the cost becomes prohibitive. — William F Buckley, Jr

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in a brewery. — H. L. Mencken

’Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. — W.C. Fields

A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain / And drinking largely sobers us again. — Alexander Pope

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they're going to feel all day. — Frank Sinatra

Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take the girl’s clothes off. — Raymond Chandler

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. — Hannu

A fine beer may be judged with just one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure. — Old Czech Proverb

In victory, you deserve champagne, in defeat, you need it. — Napoleon

It’s a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption. — James Thurber

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. — Ecclesiastes

People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as a joke. — Will Rogers

Filled with mingled cream and amber;
I will drain that glass again.
Most peculiar visions clamber
through the chamber of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies,
come to life, and fade away.
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
— Edgar Allan Poe

A quart of ale is a dish for a king. — Shakespeare

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable. — John Ciardi

Malt does more than Milton can/To justify God's ways to man. — AE Houseman

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. — J. K. Galbraith

The most dangerous food of all is wedding cake. — James Thurber

People who like eating sausage or obeying the law should not watch either being made. — Otto von Bismarck

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
— J. K. Galbraith

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? — Don Marquis

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham

She said, “I know you you cannot sing.” I said, “That’s nothing, you should hear me play the piano.” — Morrissey

All these quotes and more are gathered at finderpop.com.