Sobriety is either the love of health, or an incapacity for debauch. ~ François VI de la Rochefoucault
Tag: awareness
Expressions: Dec 2025 IX
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces
Expressions: Dec 2025 III
Earth's tribulations diminish in proportion to the elevation of our souls. ~ James Lendall Basford, Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone
Expressions: Nov 2025 VII
. . . why so very, very merry? Is it purity of conscience, or your one-and-seven sherry?~ W.S. Gilbert
Expressions: Nov 2025 VI
T is for Temperance, Tremens, and Thirst. You get the last two if you don't have the first. ~ James Clarence Harvey
Expressions: Nov 2025 V
I'll be sober tomorrow, but you'll be crazy the rest of your life. ~ W. C. Fields, 1934
Expressions: Nov 2025 IV
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication . . . . Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths . . . . But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine . . . . We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract … Continue reading Expressions: Nov 2025 IV
Expressions: Nov 2025 III
Almost anything can be preserved in alcohol, except health, happiness, and money. ~ Mary Wilson Little
Expressions: Nov 2025 II
A dog will run up and lick your hand. No bottle will do that . . . If the whiskey ever starts licking your hand, I would advise you lay off it for a while, say five or ten minutes. ~ W. C. Fields
Expressions: Sep 2025 IX
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold
