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 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.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways;
She treads the path that she untreads again;
Her more than haste is mated with delays,
Like the proceedings of a drunken brain,
Full of respects, yet nought at all respecting;
In hand with all things, nought at all effecting.
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.
It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
or in mounting the
body of some poor
drunken female
whose life had
slipped away into
sorrow.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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