“I’m not talking a cup of cheap gin splashed over an ice cube. I’m talking satin, fire and ice; Fred Astaire in a glass; surgical cleanliness, insight.. comfort; redemption and absolution. I’m talking MARTINI.

“Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.”
J. O’Rourke

“If it wasn’t for the olives in his martinis he’d starve to death.”
Milton Berle

“He knows just how I like my martini – full of alcohol.”
Homer Simpson

“One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.”
James Thurber

“I like to have a martini, two at the very most –After three I’m under the table, After four, I’m under my host.”
Dorothy Parker

“Happiness is…finding two olives in your martini when you’re hungry.”
Johnny Carson

“Shaken, not stirred.”
James Bond

“I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.”
George Burns

“They made me feel civilized.”
Ernest Hemingway novel Farewell to Arms.