“A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.”

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

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American journalist 1947

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

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“I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.”

John Lyly (1554–1606) English politician

Source: Euphues and his England, P. 308.

“Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one, too!”

Mike Lange (1948) Canadian sportscaster

Quoted in Keith Barnes, "Lange's inimitable style makes him a broadcast legend", Tribune-Review (2008-01-20)

“Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and the dessert of remorse.”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do.”

Rick Riordan book Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153
1910s

“Aware of his own weaknesses, he readily conceded his flaws. He was, incongruously, an incurable gossip, careful to label rumor for what it was, but fascinated by it… He could be rowdy, drink too much, overreach. He was not good at concealing his feelings, hardly ideal for a man in his position.”

W. Mark Felt (1913–2008) Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal

All the President's Men (1974) by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Who will get rationed? Well, the very old and the very young, obviously, the most helpless and vulnerable among us. But it will also be those who don't live politically correct lives — those who have too many cigarettes or cocktails or cans of soda. "Death by Chocolate" won't just be a cute name on the dessert menu.”

Mike Huckabee (1955) Arkansas politician

[2011-02-22, A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (and a Trillion That We Don't!), New York, Sentinel, 9781595230737, 24605119M, http://books.google.com/books?id=yAomHRz76-sC&pg=PT48]

“oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

“A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.”

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