What are drinks?

Famous quotes containing the word drinks:

“O God, and the wedding! All her family and her friends
and only a handful of mine all scroungy and bearded
just wait to get at the drinks and food—”
—Gregory Corso (b. 1930)

“The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks and gapes for drink again;”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)

“An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.”
—Alvan L. Barach (1895–1977)