20 Funny Proverbs from Holland about Drinking

The Dutch language is full of funny proverbs. Many of them sound quite ridiculous when translated literally into English. For example when somebody gets a nasty surprise in Holland “the monkey is coming out of the sleeve”. Or when somebody is trying to hide being upset he is “laughing like a farmer with a toothache”.…

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,,Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life…

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,,I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended on to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” U.S. president Abraham Lincoln

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“People are divided into alcoholics and drunks. The former ones experience remorse from what the latter ones do with pride!” Bulgarian blog c2h5oh.org See more Drinking quotes

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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.” English novelist and agent for the  Secret Intelligence Service Graham Greene See more Drinking Quotes

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,,Let me advise you, Madam, leave off your dam’d adulterated water, your tea, and take to wine. It will paint your face better than vermilion, and put more honesty in your heart than all the sermons you can read.” English novelist Henry Fielding See more Drinking Quotes

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,,The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death house. But the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with – as the phrase is – a…