{"id":365,"date":"2015-05-19T18:53:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T01:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?page_id=365"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T21:13:47","slug":"martini-quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?page_id=365","title":{"rendered":"Martini Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>SPECIFICALLY GIN OR MARTINI QUOTES!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI don\u2019t get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suite with a Martini\u201d.<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>Martin Freeman (aka Bilbo Baggins)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cIf you told me to write a love song tonight, I&#8217;d have a lot of trouble.\u00a0 But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that&#8217;s a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.<\/em><em>\u201c<br \/>\n<\/em>Stephen Sondheim<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later.\u00a0 The bishop asks, \u201cHow do you like it up here\u201d?\u00a0 The priest says, \u201cIf it wasn&#8217;t for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day,\u00a0 I&#8217;d be lost.\u00a0 Bishop, would you like a martini?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes.\u201d \u201cRosary, get the bishop a martini!<\/em><em>\u201c<br \/>\n<\/em>Henny Youngman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.<\/em><em>\u201c<br \/>\n<\/em>Bob Shacochis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing \u2018As Time Goes By\u2019 as some girl&#8217;s leaning on it drinking a martini.\u00a0 Great image.\u00a0 But none of it worked out.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t even play Chopsticks.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve got a nice piano at my house!<\/em><em>\u201c<br \/>\n<\/em>George Clooney<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>A dry martini,&#8217; he said. &#8216;One. In a deep champagne goblet.&#8217; &#8230; Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon&#8217;s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. \u00a0Shake it very well until it&#8217;s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. \u00a0Got it?<\/em><em>\u201c<br \/>\n<\/em>Ian Fleming<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it?\u00a0 Who&#8217;s that for?\u00a0 &#8216;I like my bologna like a martini.\u00a0 With an olive.&#8217;\u00a0 \u2018I&#8217;ll have the bologna sandwich &#8211; dirty.&#8217;<\/em> <em>\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Jim Gaffigan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>I had to give up martinis &#8211; I enjoyed them too much.<\/em><em>\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Brett Somers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.<\/em><em>\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Eric Stoltz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.<\/em><em>\u201c<br \/>\n<\/em>Bernard DeVoto<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201cI don\u2019t get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suite with a Martini\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Martin Freeman (aka Bilbo Baggins)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI should learn to crochet something I\u2019ll actually use \u2026 like a martini.\u201d<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Maxine (John Wagner)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI believe in red meat.\u00a0 I often said: \u2018red meat and gin\u2019.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Julia Child when asked to explain her longevity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI only take a drink on two occasions:\u00a0 when I\u2019m thirsty and when I\u2019m not.\u201d\\<br \/>\n<\/em>Brendon Behan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cNothing like a martini to put me in the mood\u2026 for another martini.\u201d<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Maxine (John Wagner)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;There is no sugar in a martini; no egg whites, no black and white rums, no shaved almonds, no fruit juice, no chocolate, and no spices&#8230;. It is a clear, clean, cold, pure, honest drink &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Donald G. Smith, Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;My doctor said eat more fruits and vegetables. An extra strawberry in my daiquiri and olive in my martini should do the trick&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Maxine (John Wagner)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Sinatra: <em>&#8220;Let me fix you a Martini that&#8217;s pure magic.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Martin: <em>&#8220;It may not make life&#8217;s problems disappear, but it&#8217;ll certainly reduce their size.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I am prepared to believe that a dry Martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Alec Waugh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Shaken, not stirred.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> James Bond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Martinis are the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> H. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;See, in mixing the important thing is the rhythm. Always have a rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan, you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time. But a Martini, you always shake to waltz time.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Nick Charles, <em>The Thin Man<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman \u2026 or a bad woman.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> George Burns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> James Thurber<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>I&#8217;d like a dry martini, Mr. Quoc, a very dry martini. A very dry, arid, barren, desiccated, veritable dust-bowl of a martini. I want a martin that could be declared a disaster area. Mix me just such a martini<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Hawkeye Pierce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> George Burns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>I&#8217;m not talking a cup of cheap gin splashed over an ice cube. I&#8217;m talking satin, fire and ice; Fred Astaire in a glass; surgical cleanliness, insight, comfort; redemption and absolution. I&#8217;m talking MARTINI<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Anonymous<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Happiness is&#8230;finding two olives in your Martini when you&#8217;re hungry.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Johnny Carson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Jackie Gleason<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for the olives in his martinis he&#8217;d starve to death.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Milton Berle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Mae West, Clark Gable, Robert Benchley, Charles Woolcott, Billy Wilder,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Charles Butterworth, or Alexander Woolcott ???<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> (This quote has been attributed to all of the above at one time or another.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>No\u00ebl Coward<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Bernard DeVoto<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I would like to observe the vermouth from across the room while I drink my martini.&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Sir Winston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;He knows just how I like my martini &#8211; full of alcohol.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Homer Simpson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have the second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there&#8217;s no holding me.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> William Faulkner<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I never should have switched from Scotch to Martinis.\u201d<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Humphrey Bogart last words<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;They say that a martini is like a woman&#8217;s breast. One ain&#8217;t enough and three is too many.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Gayle, the Cocktail Waitress, &#8220;Parallax View&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;The three martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?\u201d<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Gerald R Ford\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I feel sorry for people who don\u2019t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that\u2019s as good as they\u2019re going to feel all day.\u201d<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Frank Sinatra &amp; Gerald R. Ford<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man&#8217;s lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon, and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Bernard De Voto (1897-1955)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Zen Martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it&#8217;s the gin<\/em>.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Ogden Nash<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Norman Mailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> H. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t&#8217;ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Phyllis Diller<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230; all my life I&#8217;ve been terrible at remembering people&#8217;s names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Tallulah Bankhead<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> M. F. K. Fisher<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;This is an excellent martini\u2014sort of tastes like it isn&#8217;t there at all, just a cold cloud.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Herman Wouk<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland&#8230; I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Isaac Stern<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Phyllis Diller<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never tasted anything so cool and clean &#8230; They make me feel civilized,&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Hemingway in &#8220;A Farewell to Arms&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;the elixir of quietude&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> E.B. White<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen&#8217;s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Winston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> P. J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Is your favorite Martini or Gin quote not in the list?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Please let me know and I&#8217;ll add it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>THE WISDOM OF W.C. FIELDS<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cIf I had to live my life over, I&#8217;d live over a saloon.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;A man&#8217;s got to believe in something. I believe I&#8217;ll have another drink.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t drink anymore, on the other hand I don&#8217;t drink any less either.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I exercise strong self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Now don&#8217;t say you can&#8217;t swear off drinking; it&#8217;s easy. I&#8217;ve done it a thousand times.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil&#8217;s Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon &#8212; and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor&#8217;s house unless they have a well-stocked bar.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Somebody&#8217;s been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Charlie McCarthy: &#8220;Say, Mr. Fields, I read in the paper where you consumed two quarts of liquor a day. What would your father think about that?&#8221; WC: &#8220;He&#8217;d think I was a sissy.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>I don&#8217;t believe in dining on an empty stomach.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Of course, now I touch nothing stronger than buttermilk: 90-proof buttermilk.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>I seldom took a drink on the set before 9 a.m.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>(Fields gave this rationale for not drinking water:) &#8220;Fish f**k in it.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>(Fields, who never got falling-down drunk, explained why:) &#8220;When you woo a wet goddess, there&#8217;s no use falling at her feet.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Fields&#8217; retort from his dressing room after a director had shouted, &#8220;Camera reloading!&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Fields reloading!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>(After a Universal executive wondered aloud if Fields drank all the time, the enraged comedian retorted:) &#8220;I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink; that&#8217;s the one thing I&#8217;m indebted to her for.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I take inordinate pride in my nose. Indeed, I have treatment done on it every day&#8221; (At this point, Fields lifts a glass.) &#8220;My daily treatment.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>My illness is due to my doctor&#8217;s insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Sleep&#8230;the most beautiful experience in life&#8211;except drink.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. While everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we&#8217;ll be seeing six or seven.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Is your favorite W.C. Fields quote not in the list?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Please let me know and I&#8217;ll add it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>OTHER GENERAL COCKTAIL OR ALCOHOL HUMOROUS QUOTES<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI drink to make other people more interesting.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Ernest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s just that I\u2019d rather die of drink than of thirst.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Ian Fleming, Thunderball<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cHear no evil, speak no evil, and you won&#8217;t be invited to cocktail parties.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz &amp; cocktails.&#8221; <\/em>Federico Garcia Lorca<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cToo much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Mark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cThe water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Winston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cHappiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whisky, and a dog to eat the rare steak.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Johnny Carson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I feel sorry for people who don\u2019t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that\u2019s as good as they\u2019re going to feel all day.\u201d<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Frank Sinatra &amp; Gerald R. Ford<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI like my whisky old and my women young.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Errol Flynn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Sir Winston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cTell me what brad of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201c90% I\u2019ll spend on good times, women, and Irish Whiskey. The other 10% I\u2019ll probably waste.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Tug McGraw<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Henny Youngman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Steve Allen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors &#8230; and miss.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Robert A. Heinlein<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;If you drink, don\u2019t drive. Don\u2019t even putt.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Dean Martin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>George Burns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I went to the hospital for a blood transfusion and they gave me a wine list.&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Dean Martin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cWhisky is liquid sunshine.\u201d<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I feel tired.&#8221;<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Brigitte Bardot<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Rodney Dangerfield<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can&#8217;t remember if it&#8217;s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> George Burns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;Health &#8211; what my friends are always drinking to before the fall down.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Phyllis Diller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn&#8217;t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Henny Youngman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I saw a notice that said &#8216;Drink Canada Dry&#8217; and I&#8217;ve just started.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Brendan Behan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cFirst you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cIn wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Benjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cAlcohol may be man&#8217;s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Frank Sinatra<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cAfter the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cAlcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cScotch whiskey is made from barley and the morning dew on angel&#8217;s nipples.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Warren Ellis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cit provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> William Shakespeare, <em>Macbeth<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Mark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cWhen a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> C.S. Forester, <em>The African Queen<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cNot everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we&#8217;re not poets.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Dudley Moore<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cCome, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> William Shakespeare, <em>The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cWhisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Julian Barnes<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Is your favorite cocktail quote not in the list?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Please let me know and I&#8217;ll add it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPECIFICALLY GIN OR MARTINI QUOTES! \u201cI don\u2019t get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suite with a Martini\u201d. 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