“ He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. ”
- Andrew Lang- Copy
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“ Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor. ”
- Hugh Grant- Copy
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“ An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. ”
- Andrew Lang- Copy
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“ Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. ”
- Conor Cruise O’Brien- Copy
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“ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ 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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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“ He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination. ”
- Andrew Lang- Copy
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“ If merely "feeling good" could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ It is better to rise from life as from a banquet — neither thirsty nor drunken. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior… jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. ”
- Florence Nightingale- Copy
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“ Not by gain our life is measured, but by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken, but how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth in the sacrifice we bear; he who has the greatest suffering ever has the most to share. ”
- Watchman Nee- Copy
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