"The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."

~ Alban W. Barkley

~ Is there any other kind of beer? ~

 

"Some aspects of philosophy are intelligible only with beer." 

~ Philip Blosser  

 
"Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing."
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
            ~ Benjamin Franklin

 

"I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds."
             ~Ernest Hemingway
"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"
              ~ Benjamin Franklin

 "Anyone who refrained from wine to such an extent that he severely tried nature would in some measure incur guilt."
                   ~ St. Thomas Aquinas (ST II-II, 150, ad 1)

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
                       ~Oscar Wilde

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
                       ~ W.C. Fields

Disclaimer: this page is intended entirely as an expression of joyous ebullience and implies neither explicit nor implicit approval of alcoholic consumption nor suggestion that alcohol of any kind is part of any course of instruction at Lenoir-Rhyne College.

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