neitzsche

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), The Gay Science, section 41

drinking

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

Barbra Tober

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W.C. Fields

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer (800BC-700BC), The Odyssey

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant (1906-1972)

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), In the Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Roberty Benchley (1889-1945)

inspiration

"you can't wait for inspiration. you have to go after it with a club." - jack london

"procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." don marquis

sad but true

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley

happiness

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness

Robert Davies

part 6

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Booth Luce

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton

part 4

I shall not feel my long separation from you, if I find that my absence has been of no injury to you, and that you have grown in goodness and knowledge, as well as stature. But, ah! How much I will suffer on my return, if the reverse has occurred! You enter all my thoughts, into all my prayers; and on you, in part will depend whether I shall be happy or miserable, as you know how much I love you. You must do all in your power to save me pain.
Robert E. Lee

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
Margo Kaufman

To accept favor is to sell one's freedom
Syrus

Wrinkles meerly indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

Victories that are easy are cheap
H.W. Beecher

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Jefferson

But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one miss whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth or race.
Booker T. Washington

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

It is seldom that anything is permanently gained by holding back a fact.
Booker T. Washington

If there is a person whom you dislike, that is the one of whom you should never speak.
Cecil

He who begins many things finishes nothing.
C. Simmons