Of course it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
If all be true that I do think There are five reasons we should drink; Good wine – a friend – or being dry Or lest we should be by and by Or any other reason why.
Anyway no drug not even alcohol causes the fundamental ills of society. If were looking for the source of our troubles we shouldnt test people for drugs; we should test them for stupidity ignorance greed and love of power.’08-02-2010
O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should with joy pleasance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts.
If once a man indulges himself in murder very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking and from that to incivility and procrastination.
If I lived back in the wild west days instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster Id carry a soldering iron. That way if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like Hey look. Hes carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing and everybody else started laughing I could just say Thats right its a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice.
They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow in their cooler moments by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
A little learning is a dang?rous thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes dont win many ballgames.
Of course it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
If all be true that I do think There are five reasons we should drink; Good wine – a friend – or being dry Or lest we should be by and by Or any other reason why.
As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.
My illness is due to my doctors insistence that I drink milk a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Anyway no drug not even alcohol causes the fundamental ills of society. If were looking for the source of our troubles we shouldnt test people for drugs; we should test them for stupidity ignorance greed and love of power.’08-02-2010
O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should with joy pleasance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts.
Its a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding but I think youll be amused by its presumption.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye Thats all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
The lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
One reason I dont drink is that I want to know when Im having a good time.
Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
Drinking makes such fools of people and people are such fools to begin with that its compounding a felony.
RUM n. Generically fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
When I sell liquor its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive its called hospitality.
Drink moderately for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness or so good as drink.
If once a man indulges himself in murder very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking and from that to incivility and procrastination.
The secret of drunkeness is that it insulates us in thought whilst it unites us in feeling.
Drunkenness is not a mere matter of intoxicating liquors; it goes deeper far deeper.
If I lived back in the wild west days instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster Id carry a soldering iron. That way if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like Hey look. Hes carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing and everybody else started laughing I could just say Thats right its a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice.
Always do sober what you said youd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow in their cooler moments by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.
I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night.
As for the brandy nothing extenuate; and the water put nought in in malice.
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Those that merely talk and never think That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than illumination.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Seriously I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
If I die I must let me die drinking in an inn.
Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
When night Darkens the streets then wander forth the sons Of Belial flown with insolence and wine.
Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker.
Two great European narcotics alcohol and Christianity.
Busy curious thirsty fly Drink with me and drink as I.
A little learning is a dang?rous thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.
When I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading.
Our constitution protects aliens drunks and U.S. Senators.
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys