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"Let me fix you a Martini that's pure magic. It may not make life's problems disappear, but it'll certainly reduce their size."

-- Some Came Running, 1959
Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin
 

"So, when he looked down into his martini, he was put into a trance by dancing myriads of winking eyes on the surface of his drink. The eyes were beads of lemon oil."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (from Breakfast of Champions)

 

"The only green vegetables I get are Martini olives."

--B.F. Pierce (M*A*S*H)

 

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

--Ambrose Bierce

 

"I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast."

-- W.C. Fields

 

"Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it."

-- W.C. Fields

 

"You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is . . . one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived."

--Bernard DeVoto

 

"If the Lord hadn't intended to have a three Martini lunch, then why do you suppose He put all those olive trees in the Holy Land?"

--Former House Speaker Jim Wright (D-TX)

 

A DRINK WITH SOMETHING IN IT
by Ogden Nash

There is something about a Martini,
A tingle remarkably pleasant;
A yellow, a mellow Martini;
I wish I had one at present.
There is something about a Martini,
Ere the dining and dancing begin,
And to tell you the truth,
It's not the vermouth--
I think that perhaps it's the gin.

 

"Let's slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini"

--Robert Benchley

 

"I should never have switched from scotch to martinis."

--Humphrey Bogart's last words

 

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."

-- Oscar Wilde

 

"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."

--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill


"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."

--His reply

 

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

-- Henny Youngman

 

"Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman... Or a bad woman."

--George Burns

 

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."

-- Humphrey Bogart

 

"I love to drink Martinis
Two at the very most
Three I'm under the table
Four I'm under the host"


--Dorothy Parker

 

 



 

 

 

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