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Letter "D" » drunkard
«While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
Child of God, dark, drunkard, girl, go to, hungriest, hungry, left, out in, poor, prison, remains, The Light, The Streets, weep
«A drunkard is like a whiskey bottle, all neck and belly and no head»
«You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
drunkard, guard, naivete, original, The Lover
«Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: / For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.»
«If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: / Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; / And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
chasten, chastened, chastening, chastens, drunkard, elders, gate, glutton, gluttons, hearken, hearkening, hearkens, His father, hold on, rebellious, stubborn
«I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Judgement,
Marketing
| Keywords:
drunkard, executives, illumination, illuminations, increasing, lamp, marketing, post, reluctance, rely, research
«He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.»
«He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate his instability»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
dissimulate, drunkard, instability, lamppost, lampposts
«To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house»
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