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)