steve11694

“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.”
--William Penn (English Quaker, Colonizer in America and Founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)

“One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.”
--Nancy Lady Astor (American-born British Politician, 1879-1964)

“Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.”
--Heraclitus (Greek Philosopher, c.540-480 B.C.E.)

“Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.”
--George Herbert (English Religious Poet, 1593-1633)

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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


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! ~William Shakespeare, Othello


First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ~Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

steve11694

I wonder if that has anything to do with
"I was drowning in my sorrows, but my sorrows they learned to swim" Until the end of the world, Bono Or did Bono take the words from H. Jackson Brown, Jr. so he could cuddle up to Catherine Zeta Jones at the mtv music awards?

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"To alcohol--the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!"

-Homer Simpson