A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone.
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.
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.
I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.
You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.
It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
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's the gin.
Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.
Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.
I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes?
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
You might be a redneck if when you run out of gas, you put gin in the gas tank.
For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.
We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.
Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.
When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)
Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
The work of anti-racism can only take place inside each individual soul, where we all try to grow into better people. There is no national tonic or instant cure.
I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.
I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.
My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.
Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?” he said. “This was a Fiona Fine original.
Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.
One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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