#drunkard

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#drunkard #executives #i #illumination #increasing

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#ago #conviction #drunkard #even #got

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much. ↗

— Bon Scott

#drunkard #i #much #special #too

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#drunkards #god #love #the-three-musketeers #love

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#children #clothes #drunkard #eat #give

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#drink #drunkard #guard #learn #love

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. ↗

— Plato

#becomes #child #drunkard #man #old

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! ↗

— Ernest Poole

#crops #drunkards #dukes #grand #kind