It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
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Related O! green bottle come & take my frustrations away,so says the drunk. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Freedom of drinking should always be allowed, and it is only American to let a guy get drunk where h... STEVE HARVEY If you get drunk today ask yourself why you never got drunk yesterday, and if you got drunk yesterda... SIMON MASHALLA The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on Ne... P.J. O'ROURKE The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne... P. J. O'ROURKE Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication:
Glory, the grape,... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Drinking just to get drunk is like having sex just to get pregnant. ROBERT HESS The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without s... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking th... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it. GUY DAVENPORT They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache. CESAR ROMERO If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get d... LUCY STONE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA It pays to get drunk with the best people. JOE E. LEWIS I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w... JOHANN VON GOETHE I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL If we are able to get one drunk driver off the road, then the program is worth it. JENNY MACK Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time. CLEA DUVALL He would offer to get me drunk. ALAINA NICOL It would be a big headache, a big problem. LARRY FREY We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a co... ROLAND BARTHES I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut. "You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior... MO YAN Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause,... PAUL AUSTER Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I ... RAYMOND CHANDLER I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. DAVID MACKAY Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare... MARGARET MITCHELL I just want to say forget it, and go to the mountains and get drunk, CHARLES HALL Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone... JOHN GREEN It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or ... ANONYMOUS It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or ... GEORGE BURNS It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or ... GEORGE F. BURNS There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk. FRANKLIN PIERCE Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL If you need to get someone drunk in order to have sex with you, you must be a pretty unattractive an... TERENCE T. GORSKI Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The h... JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The... DR. JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The h... DR. JOYCE BROTHERS Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk! DAVE MUSTAINE When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's ... JUNIOR SEAU I admit I'm an escapist when it comes to books. I become drunk on story, on words, as a buffer again... JOANNA DAVIDSON POLITANO You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising. BARRY DILLER It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte... GEORGE BURNS I would prefer that it had never existed. The headache has been enormous. RICHARD ROSE to get drunk, meet attractive girls, and get laid. GARY ALLEN I have a lot of people coming in tonight to drink and get drunk, just in case it's not allowed after... BISHARA KAOUD Be curious, ask questions SOTONYE ANGA 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take tw... WOODY ALLEN I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I d... SAMMY HAGAR Drunkenness is when the tongue walks on stilts and reason goes forward under half a sail. MARTIN LUTHER Aunt Dottie and Aunt Mae would get up there and sing the same song - 'I was drunk last night, dear M... JOYCE GIBSON When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no si... BRUCE AIDELLS It's not typically possible in your Craftsman bungalow to do that. It's a big headache for a judge -... GEORGE FISHER I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get dr... SAMMY HAGAR Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "... TERRY PRATCHETT I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I think I have the best strike force in the Premiership, ... But it gives me a selection headache an... RAFAEL BENITEZ The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astr... ANDREA M. GHEZ And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the a... BIBLE The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness�... ROMAN PAYNE Nothing is wrong in taking medicine when you’re sick, but something is wrong if It is been taking ... BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I... MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han... JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han... DR. JOYCE BROTHERS
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