Drunkard Quotes
A cautionary figure
One classic line argues the sight of a drunkard preaches Better against the habit than any sermon ever could.
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...
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.
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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
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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.
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Another treats desire itself as the real subject, comparing it to something working Against a person from the inside, much like drink does within the drunkard.
