Dunking Straw

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Come quickly, I am drinking the stars. - Dom Perignon

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

That's the thing that broke the straw. - Archie Bunker

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

That's the straw that broke the camel's neck. - Archie Bunker

It's the final straw that broke the camel's back. - English Proverb

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? - Cardinal Richelieu

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Drinking rum before noon makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic. - Unknown

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. - Sir Walter Scott

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

I don't have a drinking problem. Except when I can't get a drink. - Tom Waits

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Drinking gives one a very clear sense of who's to blame for everything. - Unknown

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. - Nelson Mandela

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. - C.S. Forester

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

If you have to choose between drinking wine every day or being skinny, which would you choose: Red or White? - Unknown

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. - Clement Freud

Some lawyers are like unto the camel, which, before drinking out of a brook, maketh the water turbid with his foot. - Adolphus W Ward

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. - Sherman Alexie

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp. - Will Cuppy