"Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin."

-- Edward Gorey

#Too Much Quotes #Gin Quotes #Drank Quotes

“Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.”
“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?”
“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”
“There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.”
“Godâ€™s will and desireâ€”His pleasureâ€”is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.”
“O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.”
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

Source : Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”
“I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two”

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