“ We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine — everybody drinks water. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. ”
- W. C. Fields- Copy
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“ The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ There's no evidence not to drink in moderation, but we are not ready to be advocating this either. ”
- Robert Adams- Copy
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“ I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ”
- Pearl Bailey- Copy
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“ For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ I drink to the general joy of the whole table. - from Macbeth. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ”
- Richard Burton- Copy
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“ The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It is meat and drink to me. - As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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