“The Prophet said, All drinks that produce intoxication are Haram.”
Aisha (605–678) Muhammad's wife
Sahih Bukhari 1:4:243
“A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.”
Source: "An Essay on Criticism", (1709)
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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744Related quotes
“Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.”
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From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.”
Matthew Prior (1664–1721) British diplomat, poet
Upon a passage in the Scaligerana; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
