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Martini (and other drink) Quotes
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Martini (and other drink) Quotes
"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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