Keep Calm and Drink Up
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN: 1449409385
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Keep Calm and Drink Up humorously reminds you to keep a stiff upper lip and calm demeanor…as well as a bottle of your favorite drink handy. This uplifting and humorous gift book is just the right mix of one part drinking axiom and one part sage advice—stirred until well blended.
"In victory, you deserve champagne; in defeat, you need it," stated Napoleon Bonaparte. Inspired by the iconic World War II poster "Keep Calm and Carry On," Keep Calm and Drink Up is a gentle riff on the classic British war campaign.
The original slogan inspired a stiff upper lip and optimistic energy, but Keep Calm and Drink Up proves that in the long run, it's a stiff drink and flowing spirits that really motivate the masses. Keep Calm and Drink Up features more than 100 proverbs and mantras from the likes of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Rumi, Dave Barry, and Garrison Keillor, including:
* "There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne." --Bette Davis
* "I know the truth is in between the first and fortieth drink." --Tori Amos
* "Twenty-four hours in a day, twenty-four beers in a case. Coincidence?" --Stephen Wright
* "Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat." --Alex Levine
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von Goethe The pub knows a lot, almost as much as the churches. Joyce Carey Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw An alcoholic is anyone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do. Dylan Thomas Red wine is just like ketchup: it goes with everything. Jason Walton I think hangovers are the body’s way of telling us we didn’t drink enough to still be drunk when we woke up the next day. Anonymous On some days, my
drinking. Benjamin Franklin I’m Catholic and I can’t commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. Jack Kerouac It is a fair wind that blew men to the ale. Washington Irving But the greatest love—the love above all loves— Even greater than that of a mother, Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one beer-drunken slob for another. Irish proverb I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. Alex Levine What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? W. C. Fields There are only two times I drink beer: when I’m alone and when I’m with someone else. Anonymous I like to drink martinis. Two, at the most. Three, I’m under the table; Four, I’m under the host. Dorothy Parker For every storm, a calm, For every thirst, a beer. Anonymous
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. Alex Levine What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? W. C. Fields There are only two times I drink beer: when I’m alone and when I’m with someone else. Anonymous I like to drink martinis. Two, at the most. Three, I’m under the table; Four, I’m under the host. Dorothy Parker For every storm, a calm, For every thirst, a beer. Anonymous