#drunkard

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. ↗

— Epictetus

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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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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

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

— Plato

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

— Ernest Poole

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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

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The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. ↗

— Bruce Perens

#filtered #marketing #open #open source #paradigm

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

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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

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