Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

 

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
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Earlier proverb, quoted in James Howell's English Proverbs (1659)
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Better belly burst than good drink lost.

 

Jonathan Swift

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I think my problem is that I do have the fire in my belly. I am so adamantly supportive of the good traditional things about America and our free enterprise system, and I want to make sure that America is put back on the right track, and we only do that by defeating Obama in 2012. I have that fire in my belly. It’s a matter for me a couple of practical, pragmatic decisions that have to be made. One is, with a large family, understanding the huge amount of scrutiny and the sacrifices that have to be made on my children's part, in order to see their mama run for president! But yeah, the fire in the belly, it's there! That's kind of my problem! It's such a roaring fire in my belly to preserve and restore all that’s good about America, that I struggle with that every single day.

 

Sarah Palin

 

(Insert Goaltender here) just lost his liquor license.

 

Mike Lange

 

You have been born in this world as a human being to worship God; therefore try to acquire love for His Lotus Feet. Why do you trouble yourself to know a hundred other things? What will you gain by discussing philosophy? Look here, one ounce of liquor is enough to intoxicate you. What is the use of your trying to find out how many gallons of liquor there are in the tavern?

 

Ramakrishna

 

I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

 

Oscar Levant

 

A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.

 

Richard Brinsley Sheridan