#liquor

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#brain #discerning #genius #gives #good

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#grew #grown #having #i #knew

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now. ↗

— Drew Carey

#crime #gang #led #liquor #now

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drink #get #liquor #only #real

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. ↗

— Frank Langella

#dracula #each #food #help #liquor

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.' ↗

— Bill Maher

#big #bush #case #destroy #i

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all. ↗

— Will Rogers

#liquor #prohibition #than

They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately. ↗

— Bud Abbott

#around #flowed #haven #house #i

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#liquors #madness #produce #rum #total

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#carried #earnestly #end #every #guise