Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water

Another nigga never can’t be I’m so outstanding. Don’t care if they can’t stand me I’m sitting on top of the world like brandy.

Music is the brandy of the damned.
 

The mixture spoils two good things, of brandy and water.

There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy
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Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it’s supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.”

A man may acquire a taste for wine or

brandy

, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him”

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it.”

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.”

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations — wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”