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DRESS --- DRIVE-INS --- DRUGS
DRUNKENNESS

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DRESS

see: "FASHION"
see: "THE BODY" for other related links



When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian
youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said
with a smile of contempt, 'This is all arrogance.' Afterwards
some Lacedemonians came in 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. 170—222)
Roman author and teacher of rhetoric.

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_

She was a large woman who seemed
not so much dressed as upholstered.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.

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 (1825—1902)
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].

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely
that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in
good clothes.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Entry written in 1870 _Journals_ [1909—1914].

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.

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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 (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1756]


Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

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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. (1809—1894)
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 (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.

That's quite a dress you almost have on.
--Alan Jay Lerner (1918—1986)
American playwright and lyricist.
"An American in Paris_ [1951 film]
Spoken by Gene Kelly to Nina Foch in a
bare-shoulder gown.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me and be quiet.
--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nιe Pierrepont] (1689—1762)
English writer.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 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 (1753—1801)
French man of letters.

She wears her clothes, as if they
were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738]

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 (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Walden_ [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 (1075—c. 1142)
English chronicler and monk.
In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 219.

All dressed up, with nowhere to go.
--William Allen White (1868—1944)
American journalist know as the
'Sage of Emporia.'
Of the Progressive Party in 1916, after Theodore
Roosevelt retired from presidential competition.

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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.'

--Office Team,
in _Las Vegas Business Press_ [12 February 2007]

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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.
Ex.: "She was dressed, that is to say, in dishabille, wrapped
in a long, warm dressing-gown."
--Alexandre Dumas, _Twenty Years After_

disheveled [dih-SHEV-uhld], adjective; also dishevelled:
In loose disorder; disarranged; unkempt; as, "disheveled hair."

exiguous [ig-ZIG-yoo-us], adjective:
Extremely scanty; meager.
Ex.: Among the pressures provoking these distresses were a
father's financial inadequacy and a growing awareness that,
by finding employment himself, he could ameliorate the
family's exiguous circumstances.
--Terence Brown,
_The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography_

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.
Ex.: "Tara has supermodel legs and is already getting used to being
prinked and coiffed as she prepares for her first beauty contest in
the autumn."
--Raffaella Barker,
"Diary hatched, matched and almost despatched,"
_Daily Telegraph_ [6 September 1997]

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.
Ex: "To my ear, though, the prose has the tatterdemalion feel of
something hooked together by commas, tacked together by periods."
--Brad Leithauser,"Capturer of Hearts,"
_New York Times_ [7 April 1996]

tawdry (adj.) ['ta-dree or 'taw-dree]
Cheap, showy and pretentious; indecent.



DRIVE-INS

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see:
FIFTIES (THE)
MOVIES
YOUTH
see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for 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

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see: "HEALTH"
see: "THE SIXTIES"

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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"

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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 (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.
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 (1953— )
American lawyer.
"The Legalization of Drugs" [27 April 1988],
quoted by Judge James C. Paine, addressing
the Federal Bar Association in Miami [1991].

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 (1914—1997)
American author associated with the Beat Generation.
_The Naked Lunch_ [1959]

Why is there so much controversy about drug
testing? I know plenty of guys who would be
willing to test any drug they could come up
with.
--George Carlin (1937— )
American stand-up comedian and author.

Penalties against possession of a drug should
not be more damaging to an individual than the
use of the drug itself.
--Jimmy Carter (1924— )
American Democratic statesman, President [1977—1981].

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 (1930—2004)
American pianist and soul singer.
[On his heroin addiction.]

Drugs are not always necessary, but
belief in recovery always is.
--Norman Cousins (1915—1990)
American publisher.

Our generation was right about civil rights;
we were right about Vietnam; we were right
about poverty. Unfortunately, we were wrong
about drugs.
--David Crosby (1941— )
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter;
an original member of both The Byrds and
Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

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.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out
the window, except that the birds might eat them.
--Martin H. Fischer (1879—1962)
German-born American scientist, educator, and author.
_Fischerisms_ [1944]

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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 (1930— )
_American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002]
Ch. 4 "Crime and Punishment in the New Century" p. 106.

Drugs in America

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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 (1930— )
_American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002]
Ch. 7 "War and Postwar" pp. 199-200

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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 (1926—1997)
American "Beat" poet.
Opening lines, title poem
_Howl and Other Poems_ [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 (1943— )
American political writer and professor of journalism.
_The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage_
[1987], "Everybody Get Together"

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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] (1915—1959)
American jazz singer.
_Lady Sings the Blues_ [1956, with William F. Duffy], Ch. 23


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] (1915—1959)
American jazz singer.
_Lady Sings the Blues_ [1956, with William F. Duffy]

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To make this trivial world sublime,
Take half a Gramme of phanerothyme.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
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 (1917—2004)
British psychiatrist.
Reply to Aldous Huxley [1956].

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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether
the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
--Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961)
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 (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.

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 (1881—1973)
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 (1892—1964)
American songwriter.
"I Get a Kick Out of You" (song)

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

Treating addiction to heroin with methadone is like
treating addiction to scotch with bourbon.
--Thomas Szasz (1920— )
American psychiatrist.
_The Second Sin_ [1973], "Drugs"

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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

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see "ALCOHOL" for related links


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 (1880—1950)
_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 (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
In Christopher Shultz _The Hangover Survival Guide_

Bessie Braddock: Winston, you're drunk.
Winston Churchill: Bessie, you're ugly. But
tomorrow I shall be sober.
--In J.L. Lane {ed.}
_Sayings of Churchill_ [1992]

He seldom went up to town without coming
down 'three sheets in the wind.'
--Richard Henry Dana (1815—1882)
American lawyer and author.
_Two Years Before the Mast_ [1840]

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against
that vice than the best that was ever preached upon
that subject.
--John Saville Faucit (1783—1853)
English actor, theatre manager, and playwright.

Oons, Sir! do you say that I am drunk? Sir, that
I am as sober as a judge.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
_Don Quixote in England_, 3.14 [1734]

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git
loose fum de jug.
--Joel Chandler Harris (1848—1908)
American writer.
_Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings_ [1880]

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 (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
_Les Miserables_ [1862], bk VI, ch. 9

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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_ [1998] p. 123.

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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 (1962— )
American comedian and talk show host.

You're not drunk if you can lie
on the floor without holding on.
--Dean Martin (1917—1995)
American film actor and singer.
In Paul Dickson _Official Rules_ [1978].

Better sleep with a sober cannibal
than a drunken Christian.
--Herman Melville (1819—1891)
American novelist and poet.
_Moby Dick_ [1851], ch. 3

I'm really not much of a drinker,
Just 1 or 2 at the most.
With 3 I'm under the table,
With 4 I'm under my host.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind,
and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,
lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
--William Penn (1644—1718)
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 {E.B.}.
_Some Fruits of Solitude_ [1693]

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness
that it brings is merely negative, a momentary
cessation of unhappiness.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.

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.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against
that vice than the best that was ever preached on
that subject.
--Sir John Alexander Sinclair (1897—1977)
British head of Military Intelligence [1953—1956].

Alcoholic: A man you don't like who drinks as
much as you do.
--Dylan Thomas (1914—1953)
Welsh poet.
Constantine Fitzgibbon _Life of Dylan Thomas_ [1965].

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Paul Verlaine (1844—1896)
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.]

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inebriety (noun)
A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol.
Synonyms: drunkenness, tipsiness, inebriation, intoxication


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