All Quotes By Tag: Drinking
“I admit I get the occasional headache,” I said. “I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses”.”
“There was a tacit understanding between them that ‘liquor helped’; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.”
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“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it’s there, because it can’t hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
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“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”
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“A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.”
“We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.”
“The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.”
“Hunger gives flavour to the food.”
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don’t think of calories.”
“If you see the dragon fly,best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost”
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“I never drink while I’m working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.”
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“By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.”
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“How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me?I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me.Your wife can’t be a banshee—Or can she?”
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“The only cure for a real hangover is death.”
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“Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their humps are made of fat, and water is stored in their body tissues. While other mammals draw water from bloodstreams when faced with dehydration, leading to death by volume shock, camels tap the water in their tissues, keeping their blood volume stable. Though this reduces the camel’s bulk, they can lose up to a third of their body weight with no ill effects, which they can replace astonishingly quickly, as they are able to drink up to forty gallons in a single watering.” (pp.69-70)”