“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 24, 1779, p. 424
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate
Statement of 1996, as quoted in Dr. Riemann's Zeros (2003) by Karl Sabbagh, p. 88
1990s
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand <br class="br">The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I?
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
...que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim.
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897)
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Rules of Enragement (2003)