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“Condoms should be marked in 3 sizes: jumbo, colossal and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.”

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Barbara Seaman

Barbara Seaman, an American author born on September 11, 1935, and passed away on February 27, 2008, is renowned for her contributions to women's health and sex education. She is considered a pioneer in the women's health movement. more

“If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Needs Church Pay Drink Goodness Corners Alcohol Checks Doctrine Physicians Saloons Pharisees

Author:Jay Adams

“Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.”

Art Art Is Wine Alcohol Brandy

Author:Robertson Davies

“The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye. The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done. The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin. The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten. And some of us, though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.”

“Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.”

Men Giving States Strong Forget Pleasure Levels Drink Civilization Lows Empty Alcohol Excitement Artificial Forget It Confined Low Level Empty Life Strong Drink

Author:Alexander Herzen

“Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.”

Men Sometimes Laughing Singing Wine Dancing Alcohol Thoughtful Unspoken Toss

Author:Homer

“There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.”

Absolutes Alcohol Vodka

Author:Mick Jagger

“Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.”

Men Running Mere Alcohol Diminish Drunkenness Sobriety Perversity

Author:William James

“When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.”

Real Strong Felt Dangerous Grew Alcohol Drank Gears Needy

Book:Drinking: A Love Story

Source: Drinking: A Love Story

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