“I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.” IfsYearsMadeAgeFoundViewsWifeProgressYouthTenMiseryDrinkingOld AgeMiserableTeaBeerMakersLazinessFifteenDestroyersFifteen YearsTea Drinking Author:William Cobbett
“For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.” AgeLife IsStepsYouthCallingDrinkingStealingOld AgeFleetingWretchedGarlandsShort Lived Author:Juvenal
“if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.” IfsMenHardEnoughLyingGivenQualityYouthWeaknessShiningDrinkingCreditEmptinessHostFrustratedUnfortunateAlcoholismDiscreet Book:Points of View Source: Points of View
“Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.” IfsFunnyPassionWaterCuttingMissingYouthHumorousConstitutionDrinkingSuperstitionsSixtyBathsLavinia Book:Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics Source: Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics
“Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.” MayEndsWisdomAgeHoursYouthLateAgingDrinkingCandleMidnightLampsCigarNocturnal Book:Phineas Redux Source: Phineas Redux
“Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets...at that time I hadn't seen that sort of political passion in the youth, and I got to experience that first hand.” FirstsHandsPoliticalPassionHoursTalkingStreetsYouthWalkingEatingDrinkingIncrediblesSpendingParis Author:Kate Hudson