Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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.
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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