Book IV, ch. 241.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
Spanish Recognitions: The Road from the Past (2004)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
“I've never met a very memorable cobbler.”
Assorted Fictions (2006)
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 1, Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics?, p. 2.
Context: The world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is a strange cocktail of continuity and change. Some aspects of international politics have not changed since Thucydides. There is a certain logic of hostility, a dilemma about security that goes with interstate politics. Alliances, balance of power, and choices in in policy between war and compromise have remained similar over the millennia.
“I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.”
“Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.”
Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
“Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.”
The Tender Bar, p. 108, ppb edition.
Folks little indebted to Nature, since it is only by chance that they wear the human form and without it I might class them with the herds of beasts.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
“Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.”
Reported in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 221.
“Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.”
