“Please, sir, I want some more.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

 

“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us; and if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two. Nor is this, the most striking phenomenon, incidental to such a state. It is an undoubted fact, that although our senses of touch and sight be for the time dead, yet our sleeping thoughts, and the visionary scenes that pass before us, will be influenced, and materially influenced, by the mere silent presence of some external object: which may not have been near us when we closed our eyes: and of whose vicinity we have had no waking consciousness. ” 

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“One drink is just right, two are too many, three too few” Spanish saying

http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/

You cannot loosen a man’s tongue with root beer.

Original Klingon: Worf

 

 

 

 

Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón.

Many a time a man’s mouth broke his nose.

http://www.gaelicmatters.com/funny-irish-sayings.html

foto ulmarra pub near grafton nsw australia

 

Adams and Flinders

Marc Glasby

Up in old Port Wyndham
back in the early days
at tale is told about two men
who wouldn’t mend their ways
 
Adams hated Flinders
they were the town’s JPs
They’d love to lock each other up
then throw away the keys
 
One hot and dusty afternoon
while drinking in the pub
insults turned to punches
over some imagined snub
 
Out in to the street they went
with flailing legs and arms
The cops came down and locked them up
before they came to harm
 
Then in the morning sobered up
there was one fact to face
Each would sit in judgment
upon the others case
 
Well Adams was the first to sit
upon the others crime
The gavel fell, the judgment was
a mere five shilling fine
  
Then Flinders turn to sit arrived
He donned his wig and frowned
‘There’s too much of this thing about
the fine will be ten pounds’
 
We don’t how it went from there
or how the story ends
but one thing we can bet for sure
they’d never be good friends

Aug 2000 Brisbane

http://www.wanowandthen.com/Ballads/text.html

Even the well-trained wolf won’t become a lamb.

ARMENIAN

MARY’S LITTLE LAMB.

(New version).

Mary had a little lamb,

And a little indiscretion :

When asked to have some more she did.

And suffered indigestion.

1913 ‘MARYS LITTLE LAMB.’, The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 – 1939), 6 December, p. 57, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22219055

I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.”

― Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York

You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.

Van Morrison

There is only one useful tobacco recipe: Don’t smoke!!

Tobacco

“Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof. In your abuse thereof sinning against God harming yourselves both in person and goods, and raking also thereby the marks and notes of vanity upon you by the custom thereof making yourselves to be wondered at by all foreign civil nations and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and held in contempt; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”

― King James I of England – VI of Scotland

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
― Fernando Pessoa

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.

~Scottish Proverb

“That’s what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.”

― Richard Matheson, I am Legend and Other Stories

Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches her.

SPANISH

“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven’t had any yet, so I can’t very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can’t very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.”

― Lewis Nordan

HALL, TOM T.

How old do you think I am he said I said well I didn’t know
He said I turned sixty five about eleven months ago
I was sittin’ in Miami pourin’ blended whiskey down
When this old grey black gentleman was cleanin’ up the lounge
There wasn’t anyone around ‘cept this old man and me
The guy who ran the bar was watching Ironsides on TV
Uninvited he sat down and opened up his mind
On old dogs and children and watermelon wine
Ever had a drink of watermelon wine he asked
He told me all about it though I didn’t answer back
Ain’t but three things in this world that’s worth a solitary dime
But old dogs and children and watermelon wine
He said women think about theyselves when menfolk ain’t around
And friends are hard to find when they discover that you’re down
He said I tried it all when I was young and in my natural prime
Now it’s old dogs and children and watermelon wine
Old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes
God bless little children while they’re still too young to hate
When he moved away I found my pen and copied down that line
‘Bout old dogs and children and watermelon wine
[ harmonica ]
I had to catch a plane up to Atlanta that next day
As I left for my room I saw him pickin’ up my change
That night I dreamed in peaceful sleep of shady summertime
Of old dogs and children and watermelon wine.

The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.

― Archilochos

Hunger will lead a fox out of the forest.”

Polish Proverb

 

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

― Janwillem Van de Wetering

“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”
― Bhagavad Gita

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn’t scream when he took the first bite.

― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he’s as cunning as he is ferocious; once he’s had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”
― Angela Carter

Avoid the first sin, for a legion follows at its heel.

"The proverbs of Wales: a collection of Welsh proverbs, with English Translations"

A few sins are too many.

One pot of beer makes room for another. Creates a craving for another. Till the first went down, the man was happy without the poison ; but now he is not master of himself, and must have another pot to keep the first one company.

"The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Theron"

Serendipity is a propensity for making fortuitous discoveries while looking for something unrelated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity

"One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough." Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle." Henny Youngman

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Alternative Reel http://www.alternativereel.com/index.php

THRIFT. Cut your coat according to your cloth.

THANKS TO SACRED TEXTS

Hindustani doggerel, the accuracy of which is only too true :

"Says the hemp, I am of gorgeous hue;
Says the poppy, I am king of the world;
But says the opium, I am a lady-love,
Who takes me once takes me for ever."

 

foto – SHELLBOUND in ulmarra 2009

Will a rushing flood stop at a dam ?

"A classified collection of Tamil proverbs"

When a flood rises over one’s head, what does it matter whether it rises only a span or a cubit ? When one is completely discredited, further disgrace makes no difference.

foto – flood in ulmarra may 2009

A man should avoid these six evils: lust, anger, avarice pleasure, pride, and rashness, for free of these he may be happy. (Sanskrit).

I Came to buy a smile—today—But just a single smile—The smallest one upon your faceWill suit me just as well—The one that no one else would missIt shone so very small—I’m pleading at the “counter”—…

Source: A man should avoid these six evils: lust, anger, avarice pleasure, pride, and rashness, for free of these he may be happy. (Sanskrit). | THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY

Bunny’s Excuse. There was once a wicked old sinner Who fancied a rabbit for dinner, But the bunny he met Said: “Don’t kill me yet, For I really am still a beginner.”

My living problems also cease to be struggles.

Heaven designs to suit our trials to our strength.

Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.

” The queen’s mocking laughter cut in. “This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?”

“Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt—a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.”
― Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

RISE TOGETHER

ADAM T NA SPEAKER

IF DRINKING DON’T KILL ME

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

SMALL TRIBUTE FOR IZZY FOREAL BY PETER CARRUTHERS

RISE TOGETHER

ADAM T NA SPEAKER

IF DRINKING DON’T KILL ME

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

SMALL TRIBUTE FOR IZZY FOREAL BY PETER CARRUTHERS