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Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

- Bertrand Russell

There was an old hen And she had a wooden leg, And every damned morning She laid another egg; She was the best damned chicken On the whole damned farm— And another little drink Wouldn't do us any harm.

- American Folksong

It's a long time between drinks.

- Anonymous

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

- Epictetus

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

- John Fletcher

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them.

- Bible

The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

- Thomas Jefferson

I would appeal to Philip, she said, but to Philip sober.

- Valerius Maximus

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

- Omar Khayyam

All excess is ill, but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

- William Penn

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

- Alexander Pope

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

- Henry David Thoreau