“No champagne, no gain” is a drinking variation on “no pain, no gain” that has been printed on many images. “No champagne, no gain” has been cited in print since at least 1993.
Google Books
Country Life
Volume 187, Issues 48-51
1993
Pg. 57:
NO CHAMPAGNE, NO GAIN
NICHOLAS FAITH RECOMMENDS FIRST-CLASS FIZZ
31 January 1998, The Guardian (London, UK), The Guide sec., pg. C34, col. 1:
No champagne, no gain, says Jacques Peretti
13 January 2000, The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), “Thursday with Candy Barr,” pg. 15:
No Champagne, no gain, I always say, except at the clinic, where I have to be all reformed and regretful and able to remember my name.
29 November 2007, Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), “Bubbles Boy” (wine specialist Thomas Spooner) by Valerie Vinyard, Caliente sec., pg. 7, col. 4:
Is it true that the original phrase was “No champagne, no gain”?
“I like that. It works.”
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I just saw someone walk past with a ‘No Champagne No Gain’ sweater and that is such a mood
5:11 PM - 9 Sep 2018
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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