A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.