Subliminal Extacy
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01 апреля 2001 |
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DRUNKENNESS
DRUNKENNESS From Various sources. Compiled by LaesQ / Raww Arse There are more old drunkards than old doctors. - Proverb His mouth has been used as a latrine by some small animal of the night. - Kingsley Amis (1922- ) British novelist. Describing a hangover. Lucky Jim Come landlord, fill the flowing bowl, Until it doth run over . . . For tonight we'll merry, merry be, Tomorrow we'll be sober. - Anonymous Come, Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl Lord George-Brown drunk is a better man than the Prime Minister sober. - Anonymous Comparing him with Harold Wilson. The Times, 6 Mar 1976 What shall we do with the drunken sailor Early in the morning? Hoo-ray and up she rises Early in the morning. - Anonymous What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor? Ha, ha, ha, you and me, Little brown jug, don't I love thee! - Anonymous The Little Brown Jug One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. - Nancy Astor (1879-1964) American-born British politician. An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor. - Alvan L. Barach (1895- ) Journal of the American Medical Association, 181:393, 1962 Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. - St. Basil the Great (c. 330-c. 379) Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Homilies, No. XIV, Ch. 7 For when the wine is in, the wit is out. - Thomas Becon (1512 - 67) English Protestant churchman. Catechism, 375 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. - Bible: Acts 2:13 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. - Bible: Proverbs 20:1 Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. - Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet. Don Juan, II It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk. - Charles Dickens (1812-70) British novelist. Pickwick Papers, Ch. 33 I am as sober as a Judge. - Henry Fielding (1707-54) British novelist. Don Quixote in England, III:14 Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. - Edward Fitzgerald The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, LXXIV Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. It amounts to buying the dream of a thing when you haven't money enough to buy the dreamed-of thing materially. - Andre Gide (1869-1951) French novelist and critic. Journaux If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. - William James (1842 - 1910) US psychologist and philosopher. Varieties of Religious Experience A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. - James I (1566-1625) King of England. A Counterblast to Tobacco A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. - Samuel Johnson (1709-84) British lexicographer. Life of Johnson (J. Boswell), Vol. III Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. - Herman Melville (1819-91) US novelist. Moby Dick, Ch. 3 Drunkenness . . . spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. - William Penn (1644 - 1718) English founder of Pennsylvania. Fruits of Solitude, Maxim 72 I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter? - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher. Bertrand Russell, Philosopher of the Century (Ralph Schoenman) Drunkenness is temporary suicide the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. - Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness No, thank you, I was born intoxicated. - George William Russell (1867-1935) Irish poet and dramatist. Refusing a drink that was offered him. 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories (L. Copeland) Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. - Seneca (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Roman writer. Epistulae ad Lucilium, LXXXIII But I'm not so think as you drunk I am. - John Collings Squire (1884-1958) British journalist. Ballade of Soporific Absorption An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. - Dylan Thomas (1914-53) Welsh poet. Dictionary of 2Oth Century Quotations (Nigel Rees) Come, Robert, you shall drink twice while I drink once, for I cannot permit the son in his sober senses to witness the intoxication of his father. - Horace Walpole (1717-97) British writer. Explaining why he filled his son's glass twice for every glass he drank himself. Attrib.
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