Always
do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will
teach you to keep your mouth shut.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American
Writer
Don't
you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the
bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few
things have given me more pleasure. When you work
hard all day with your head and know you must work
again the next day what else can change your ideas
and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
When you are cold and wet what else can warm you?
Before an attack who can say anything that gives you
the momentary well-being that rum does? The only
time it isn't good for you is when you write or when
you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always
helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a
mechanical oppression and liquor is the only
mechanical relief.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American
Writer
Drink
not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when
once it is within thee.
-- George Herbert
1593-1632, British
Metaphysical Poet
Ale,
man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it
hurts to think.
-- A. E. Housman
1859-1936, British
Poet, Classical Scholar
