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. . . DRESS see: "APPEARANCE" see: "CLOTHES" see: "FASHION" see: "THE BODY" for other related links When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with much splendor and magnificence, with a smile of contempt he said to himself, 'This is all arrogance.' Afterwards some Lacedemonians came his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. 'This,' said he, 'is also arrogance.' --Aelian [Claudius Aelianus] (c. 170222) Roman author and teacher of rhetoric. Form adapted, quoted in: A Gentleman _The Gentleman's Library: Containing Rules For Conduct_ [4th ed., 1744]. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. --Ζsop (c.620 B.C.c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Ζsop's Fables_ Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth, and a general negligence of dress, he will, in all probability, find a corresponding disposition to negligence of address. --Sir Jonah Barrington (17601834) Irish lawyer, judge and politician. _Personal Sketches of His Own Times_ [3rd ed., 1871 (1st ed. 1827)] The fair Flora looked up with a pitiful air, And answered quite promptly, 'Why Harry, mon cher, I would like above all things to go with you there, But really and truly I've nothing to wear.' --William Allen Butler (18251902) American lawyer and author. "Nothing to Wear" [1857] The gracious and self-sacrificing and womanly women of our revolution wore dresses cut lower than those of their great- granddaughters, as any portrait gallery will show. The dress is indefensible, but let us not be too ready to condemn the wearer for worse sins than thoughtlessness and vanity. --Mrs. L.G. Calhoun American journalist. In the introduction to Elizabeth Lynn Linton _Modern Women and What is Said of Them_, p. 20 [1868]. When I started, at least women dressed to please men. Now, they dress to astonish one another. --Coco Chanel (18831971) French fashion designer. Quoted in "Newsweek" in 1969. There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Entry written in 1870 _Journals_ [19091914]. Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. --Epictetus (55135) Greek philosopher. _The Discourses_ [c. 101 to 108] - When you incline to have new Cloathes, look first well over the old Ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year . . . Remember, a Patch on your Coat, and Money in your Pocket, is better and more creditable, than a Writ on your Back, and no Money to take it off. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1756] Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1738] - Skirts couldn't get any shorter and remain legal. --Amy Greene, in "American Way" (magazine) [June 1970]. The outward forms the inward man reveal, We guess the pulp before we cut the peel. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. "A Rhymed Lesson" [1846] As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. _Aphorisms on Man_ [1788] [Gene Kelly to Nina Foch in a bare-shoulder gown:] That's quite a dress you almost have on. --Alan Jay Lerner (19181986) American playwright and lyricist. "An American in Paris" [1951 film] Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. --Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nιe Pierrepont] (16891762) English writer. "A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's Advice to a Lady" A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_ # 267 A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still. --Antoine de Rivarol (17531801) French man of letters. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Pearls of Thought_, p. 56 [1881]. She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738] Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. --William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) English novelist. _Sketches and Travels in London_ [1856] "On Tailoringand Toilets in General" - No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_ [1854] Distrust any enterprise that require new clothes. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_, ch. I [1854] - Our ancestors used to wear decent clothes, well- adapted to the shape of their bodies; they were skilled horsemen and swift runners, ready for all seemly undertakings. But in these days the old customs have almost wholly given way to new fads. Our wanton youth is sunk in effeminacy, and courtiers, fawning, seek the favors of women with every kind of lewdness. ... They sweep the dusty ground with the unnecessary trains of their robes and mantles; their long, wide sleeves cover their hands whatever they do; impeded by these frivolities they are almost incapable of walking quickly or doing any kind of useful work ... They curl their hair with hot irons and cover their heads with a fillet or a cap. --Orderic Vitalis (1075c. 1142) English chronicler and monk. In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 219 [2004]. - All dressed up, with nowhere to go. --William Allen White (18681944) American journalist know as the 'Sage of Emporia.' Of the Progressive Party in 1916, after Theodore Roosevelt retired from presidential competition. & see: When You're All Dressed Up and Have No Place To Go. --George Whiting (18841943) American songwriter. Title of 1912 song. - - 33% - Percentage of executives who said someone's style of dress at work 'significantly influences his or her chances of being promoted. 60% - Percentage who said 'somewhat.' --in _Las Vegas Business Press_ [12 February 2007] - ----- bedizen (verb) [be-'dI-zκn] To dress up in a flashy fashion, to deck (oneself) out brazenly in gaudy clothes. chintz (noun) 1. Brightly colored glazed fabric. 2. Printed cotton fabric from India. cincture (noun) A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers. cummerbund (noun) ['kκ-mκr-bκnd] A broad sash or waistband, pleated lengthwise, and usually worn in place of a vest with a tuxedo or dinner jacket. dapper (adj.) ['dζ-pκ(r)] Neat, trim, jaunty, spiffy, snazzy, spruce in appearance, i.e. smartly groomed and dressed. Applied to males only. decollete (adj.) Cut low at the neckline. diaphanous [adj. dy-AF-uh-nus] So delicate as to be transparent or translucent, or it is airy, insubstantial, vague, or ethereal. dishabille [dis-uh-BEEL], noun: 1. The state of being carelessly or partially dressed. 2. Casual or lounging attire. 3. An intentionally careless or casual manner. disheveled [dih-SHEV-uhld], adjective; also dishevelled: In loose disorder; disarranged; unkempt; as, "disheveled hair." don [DON], verb: 1. To put on or dress in. noun: 1. A Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name. 2. (In the Mafia) a head of a family or syndicate. exiguous [ig-ZIG-yoo-us], adjective: Extremely scanty; meager. fastidious (adj.) 1. Exceedingly particular or demanding esp. in matters of detail; exacting. Syn.: picky, persnickety, exacting, finicky, Cr.Syn.: careful, particular Similar: hypercritical, choosy, particular, demanding, captious, fussy, meticulous 2. Excessively sensitive or delicate in matters of food, manners, dress, or personal hygiene. Syn.: squeamish Similar: sensitive, fussy Related: prim, precise, critical, finicky, exact, conscientious Derived: fastidiously, adverb; fastidiousness, noun gewgaw [G(Y)OO-gaw], noun: A showy trifle; a trinket; a bauble. gossamer (noun) ['gah-sκ-mκ(r)] Adjective is "gossamery." Small threads spun by baby spiders in late summer; anything extremely sheer, filmy, possessed of lightness and softness approaching nothingness. meretricious [mer-ih-TRISH-us], adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with prostitutes. 2. Alluring by vulgar or flashy display; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, "meretricious dress." 3. Based on pretense or insincerity; as, "a meretricious argument." Ex. The shiny marble, bronze and brass, the gilded building crowns, the gaudy Atlantic City casinos, the spangled showgirls: it all adds up in their eyes to vulgar excess, an unsophisticate's delight in meretricious baubles. --Herbert Muschamp, "Trump, His Gilded Taste, and Me," _New York Times_, [19 December 1999] prink [PRINGK], transitive verb: To dress up; to deck for show. intransitive verb: To dress or arrange oneself for show; to primp. regalia (noun) Magnificent attire; finery. Synonyms: raiment, array sartorial (adj.) [sah(r)-'tor-i-yκl] Related to tailors and tailoring and, more broadly, to clothes. tatterdemalion [tat-uhr-dih-MAYL-yuhn], noun: A person dressed in tattered or ragged clothing; a ragamuffin. adjective: Tattered; ragged. tawdry (adj.) ['ta-dree or 'taw-dree] Cheap, showy and pretentious; indecent.   DRIVE-INS . . see: "FIFTIES (THE)" see: "MOVIES" see: "YOUTH" see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for other related links Oh how we loved this American import about 300 opened across the country. We'd happily drive into a paddock to watch a movie on a screen as big as a house-block. It was an age when cars were powerful, roomy and comfortable with bench seats that folded down. Just hang the speaker box on the window, and you had your own private-theatre-cum-bedroom. --Rosalie Higson, 'Starry Nights' The Australian [20 Aug. 2004]  DRUGS . . see: "HEALTH" see: "THE SIXTIES" - Generally, hippies used marijuana and its more potent form, hashish, which produced a quiet euphoria, or hallucinogens or psychedelics such as peyote or LSD, which expanded sensory perception. The idea was simple: dope that expanded psychological experience or felt good was fine; others that decreased perception, "downers," made one sick, or were physically addicting, "bummers." "I would like to suggest that you don't use speed, and here's why," cautioned musician Frank Zappa: "it is going to mess up your heart, mess up your liver, your kidneys, rot out your mind. In general, this drug will make you just like your mother and father." --Terry H. Anderson American professor of history and author. _The Sixties_ [2004], "From Counterculture to Sixties Culture" More than attitude, hip behavior caused problems. The emphasis on experimentation often meant pushing life to extremes. Eventually, most freaks realized that dope had diminishing returns, was no longer an experiment, but others found the ultimate downer. Too many overdosed in too many ways: Mama Cass, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Al Wilson of Canned Heat, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Keith Moon of The Who, and Pigpen of the Grateful Dead. Those were only the most famous, for untold numbers had bad trips, or worse. Some still are scared. No alien to drugs, Neil Young warned his generation that "every junkie is like a setting sun." Some never left the endless line of dope peddlers on Telegraph Avenue; others could never leave their own Haight-Ashburys. --Terry H. Anderson American professor of history and author. _The Movement and the Sixties_ [1995], "Counterculture" - LSD? Nothing much happened, but I did get the distinct impression that some birds were trying to communicate with me. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. Quoted in George Plimpton (ed.) _The Writer's Chapbook_ [1989]. Prohibition has diverted the energies of the Salvation Army from the drunkard in the gutter to the boys and girls in their teens. The work of the Army has completely changed in the past five years since the dry era came into being, and Prohibition has so materially affected society that we have girls in our rescue homes who are 14 and 15 years old, while 10 years ago the youngest was in the early twenties. --Colonel William L. Barker, head of Northern Division, Salvation Army, and organizer of the Salvation Army Unit in France during the World War. Testifies that Prohibition is demoralizing boys and girls. In the St. Cloud, Minn., "Daily Times" [9 February 1925]. Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. Drugs don't cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibtion does. --David Boaz (b. 1953) American lawyer. "The Legalization of Drugs" [27 April 1988], quoted by Judge James C. Paine, addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami [1991]. [On his drug addiction:] I'll die young but it's like kissing God. --Lenny Bruce [Leonard Alfred Schneider] (19251966) American comedian. Quoted in Richard Neville _Playpower_ [1970]. Junk is the ideal product. . . the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. --William S. Burroughs (19141997) American author associated with the Beat Generation. _The Naked Lunch_ [1959] Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. --Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) American Democratic statesman, President [19771981]. [2 August 1977] I did it to myself. It wasn't society ... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. --Ray Charles (19302004) American pianist and soul singer. [On his heroin addiction.] The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. "My First Impression of the U.S.A." An interview for _Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant_ [1921] which appeared in the "Berliner Tageblatt" [7 July 1921]. Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. --Martin H. Fischer (18791962) German-born American scientist, educator, and author. _Fischerisms_ [1944] ^^ The first quarter of the twentieth century was a fateful period, too, for what became the war on drugs, one of the great law-enforcement disasters of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, neither drug trafficking nor addiction was, essentially, a criminal act. Not that anybody thought it was a good idea to be hooked on drugs; addiction was a disaster for most people, and almost everybody knew it. It was a slippery slope leading downward to complete ruin; it destroyed family life, smashed any hope of a meaningful career, and threatened early and pitiful death. But the state had not yet wheeled in the heavy artillery of criminal justice. All this changed in the twentieth century. In 1909 Congress passed an Opium Exclusion Act, making it illegal to import opium, or opium derivatives, except for "medicinal purposes." The real turning point, however, was the Harrison Narcotic Drug Act of 1914. This was not, in form, a criminal law. It was a registration and tax law. Those who made or distributed narcotics had to keep certain records, and register with the federal government. Buyers and sellers of drugs also had to pay a tax. The act also provided that you could not buy drugs without a doctor's prescription. The statute covered opium and opium products, and "coca leaves" and their derivatives as well. Webb v. United States (1919) was an important test case. Webb was a doctor who practiced in Memphis, Tennessee. He prescribed morphine for addicts who needed a fix; and Goldbaum, a druggist, filled these prescriptions. Were these men violating the Harrison Act? In a short, almost casual opinion, the Supreme Court said yes. Prescribing drugs so that an addict could be "comfortable" and maintain "his customary use" was a "perversion" of the law, said the court. The decision put an end to the career of "dope doctors," who made a living by prescribing drugs. In April 1919 a group of New York City doctors and druggists who had been supplying drugs to addicts were arrested in raids. Tactics of this sort in effect made outlaws of everybody connected with the drug trade. Addiction itself became, in reality, a crime. --Lawrence M. Friedman (b. 1930) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002], ch. 4 "Crime and Punishment in the New Century" p. 106. ^^ ^^ In 1937 a new scandal erupted that affected the scope of food and drug law. This involved thesulfa drugs. These were the first antibiotics; they were powerful and wonderful weapons for fighting disease. One company, the S. E. Massengill Company of Tennessee, hoped to get rich on the fact that people hate swallowing pills. They marketed sulfa in a liquid (elixir) form a nice, pink preparation, tasting of raspberries. No tests were performed; the product was simply rushed into market. As it turned out, there was one small problem: 70 percent of the elixir consisted of diethylene glycol, and it was a deadly poison; more than one hundred people died in agony (including thirty- four children) before the FDA pulled the product from the market. The FDA had had the power to seize bad drugs and get them away from the public; but in the uproar that followed the sulfa scandal, they gained even greater power: the power to keep these drugs off the market in the first place. After 1938 no "new drug" could be "introduced ... into interstate commerce," unless it had the stamp of approval of the FDA. And the FDA would give this approval only to drugs that had proven themselves through scientific tests. --Lawrence M. Friedman (b. 1930) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002], ch. 7 "War and Postwar" pp. 199-200 ^^ I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, --Allen Ginsberg (19261997) American "Beat" poet. _Howl_ [1956] There was talk in those days that the scraped interiors of banana skins, dried and smoked, would get you high: "Mellow Yellow," in the vernacular and the Donovan song immortalizing it. Just before the Chicago Be-In, I joked about organizing a group to pass out leaflets saying that "The Bananas You Smoke Were Picked by Men Earning So-Many Cents a Day and Whose Land Was Taken Away by United Fruit." --Todd Gitlin (b. 1943) American political writer and professor of journalism. _The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage_ [1987], "Everybody Get Together" - I think that my getting hooked on dope killed my own mother. It sure helped, anyway. And I think if a child of mine got hooked it would kill me. I don't have the strength to watch anybody else go through the torture I went through to get clean and stay clean. All dope can do for you is kill you and kill you the long slow hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. And that's the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but. --Billie Holliday [Eleanora Fagan] (19151959) American jazz singer. _Lady Sings the Blues_, ch. 23 [1956, with William F. Duffy] In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damned private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. --Billie Holliday [Eleanora Fagan] (19151959) American jazz singer. _Lady Sings the Blues_ [1956, with William F. Duffy] - - To make this trivial world sublime, Take half a Gramme of phanerothyme. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. Letter to Humphrey Osmond [30 March 1956]. & see: To fathom Hell or soar angelic, Just take a pinch of psychedelic. --Humphrey Osmond (19172004) British psychiatrist. Reply to Aldous Huxley [1956]. - Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. --Carl Gustav Jung (18751961) Swiss psychologist. _Erinnerungen, Trδume, Gedanken_ [1963] (Memories, Dreams, Reflections) A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment; and a utilitarian must therefore consider them as vices. But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions, nor is it by any means evident that such intervention on the part of the government is really capable of suppressing them or that, even if this end could be attained, it might not therewith open up a Pandora's box of other dangers, no less mischievous than alcoholism and morphinism. --Ludwig von Mises (18811973) Austrian-American liberatarian economist. _Liberalism_ [1927] Some get a kick from cocaine, I'm sure that if I took even one sniff, It would bore me terrif-Ic'lly, too: Yet I get a kick out of you! --Cole Porter (18921964) American songwriter. "I Get a Kick Out of You" [1934 song] featured in the musical _Anything Goes_. - I once worked as a writer for a big New York ad agency. Our boss used to tell us: Invent a disease. Come up with the disease, he said, and we can sell the cure. Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copy-writers did. Marketing departments did. Drug companies did. Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance. When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. We're doing exactly what TV commercials and pop materialist culture have been brainwashing us to do from birth. Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification, and hard work, we simply consume a product. --Steven Pressfield (b. 1943) American novelist. _The War of Art_ [2002] "Resistance And Self-Medication" - We might ask ourselves, have we declared a war on drugs or a war on those who are ill and addicted to those drugs? When it comes to addiction, the rich go to Betty Ford, the poor go to county jail. --Rev. Scott Richardson, Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena Quoted in "L.A. Times" [3 June 2000]. Treating addiction to heroin with methadone is like treating addiction to scotch with bourbon. --Thomas Szasz (b. 1920) American psychiatrist. _The Second Sin_ [1973], "Drugs" - From ashes to ashes And from dust to dust; If de whiskey don't kill me De morphine must. --Alabama folk song [circa 1915]  DRUNKENNESS . . see: "ALCOHOL" for related links All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. Attributed in _The European Magazine and London Review_, vol. 72 [July-December 1817]. One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An' taking home a "load" with manly pride, My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an' lay down by my side. Then we sang "It's all fair weather when good fellows get together," Till a lady passing by was heard to say: "Can tella man who boozes by the company he chooses", And the pig got up and slowly walked away. --Benjamin H Burt (18801950) _And the pig got up and slowly walked away_ [1933 song] I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. --Raymond Chandler (18881959) American writer of detective fiction. Letter to Edgar Carter [13 December 1951]. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. --Pierre Charron (15411603) French moralist. Attributed in _The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet_, vol IV [1905]. - Bessie Braddock: Winston, you're drunk. Winston Churchill: Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober. --Attributed* in J.L. Lane (ed.) _Sayings of Churchill_ [1992] (*This exchange must be considered apocryphal as there is no record of it from any legitimate source.) & note: [Harold Bissonette, played by W.C. Fields, replying to a man who said, 'You're drunk':] Yeah, and you're crazy. I'll be sober tomorrow, but you'll be crazy the rest of your life. --"It's a Gift" [1934 film] Screenplay by Jack Cunningham & W.C. Fields. - A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. _De senectute_ (On Old Age), IX [45-44 BC] He seldom went up to town without coming down 'three sheets in the wind.' --Richard Henry Dana (18151882) American lawyer and author. _Two Years Before the Mast_ [1840] Oons, Sir! do you say that I am drunk? Sir, that I am as sober as a judge. --Henry Fielding (17071754) English novelist and dramatist. _Don Quixote in England_, 3.14 [1734] I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years. --W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (18801946) American vaudeville star and film actor. Quoted in _The Quotations of W.C. Fields_ (ed. Martin Lewis) [1976]. Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug. --Joel Chandler Harris (18481908) American writer. _Uncle Remus and His Legends of the Old Plantation_ [1881] "Plantation Proverbs" - Upon the first goblet he read this inscription: monkey wine; upon the second: lion wine; upon the third: sheep wine; upon the fourth: swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes. --Victor Hugo (18021885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. _Les Miserables_"Cosette," bk. 6, ch. 9 [1862] - ^ jazzed corked potted boiled as an owl loaded to the muzzle loaded for bear tanked burning with a blue flame pie-eyed slopped lit oiled --Prohibition terms for someone who was drunk. In Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster _The Century_, p. 123 [1998]. ^ I must entreat you to be scrupulous in the use of strong liquors. One night's drunkenness may defeat the labors of forty days well employed. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Letter to Boswell_ [30 March 1784] A telephone survey says that 51 per cent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 per cent didn't answer the phone. --Craig Kilborn (b. 1962) American comedian and talk show host. Quoted in Geoff Tibballs _The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners_, p. 119 [2004]. You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. --Dean Martin (19171995) American film actor and singer. In Paul Dickson _Official Rules_ [1978]. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. --Herman Melville (18191891) American novelist and poet. _Moby Dick_, ch. 3 [1851] Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad. --William Penn (16441718) Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe. _Some Fruits of Solitude_ [1693] Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _The Conquest of Happiness_ [1930] The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. --George Savile [Lord Halifax] (16331695) English politician and essayist. _The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter_ [1688] Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance and an irregular life do as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang, or poison, or drown themselves. --Thomas Sherlock (16781761) English bishop of the Church of England. Attributed in James Ford _The Acts of the Apostles ..._ [1856]. Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. --William Tecumseh Sherman (18201891) American Union general. In William F. G. Shanks _Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals_, p. 36 [1866]. He is certainly as guilty of suicide who perishes by a slow, as he that is despatched by an immediate poison. --Richard Steele (16721729) Irish-born essayist and dramatist. _Tatler_ [24 October 1710] Alcoholic: A man you don't like who drinks as much as you do. --Dylan Thomas (19141953) Welsh poet. Quoted in Constantine Fitzgibbon _Life of Dylan Thomas_ [1965]. ^ Paul Verlaine (18441896) French poet. Poet and painter F.A. Cazals, a friend of Verlaine, arranged to meet the poet at a cafι, but was unavoidably late. When he finally did arrive, he was a trifle nervous, for Verlaine drunk was unpredictable. A mutual friend met Cazals at the door and warned him that Verlaine, hopelessly drunk, was 'furious with you.' Cazals entered to find Verlaine surrounded by his acolytes, but a little less drunk than he had been described. Cazals took courage: 'I hear that you were abusing me just a few minutes ago.' 'Who told you that?' cried the furious Verlaine. 'Somebody you don't know,' replied Cazals prudently. 'Somebody I don't know!' exclaimed Verlaine. He began to weave his way through the crowded cafι. 'I'm going outside, and the first passerby I don't know, I'll I'll smash his jaw!' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ After a heavy drinking session in Weymouth in August 1990, 51 year old Philip Pyne fancied a kip on a bench. To stop himself rolling off, he put 12 nails through his trousers and in the process, drove several of them through his leg. Fortunately he was discovered by police. --_The Guardian_ [5 November 1999] ----- inebriety (noun) A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol. Synonyms: drunkenness, tipsiness, inebriation, intoxication end page | DANCING - DAY | DEATH - PAGE 1 (A-G) | DEATH - PAGE 2 (H-Z) | DEBATE - DEEDS | DECEPTION | DEFEAT - DELAY | DEMOCRACY | DENIAL - DESIRE | DESPAIR - DICKENS (CHARLES) | DICTIONARY - DILIGENCE | DINNER - DISABILITY | DISAGREEMENT - DISGUISE | DISHONESTY - DOCTORS | DOGS | (ON) DOING GOOD - DREAMS | DRESS - DRUNKENNESS | DUELS - DUTY | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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