~ Dylan ThomasI've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .
I think that we here are all familiar with that one.
~WC Fields (Carlotta was his mistress.)"God damn the whole fuckin' world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta."
~Sir Walter Raleigh (to his executioner before he was to be beheaded.)" Doest thou think that I am afraid of it? This is that that will cure all sorrows. What dost thou fear? Strike, man, strike!"
This little episode is great:
At one point during the defense of Rorke's Drift, Zulus swarmed into the front rooms of the outpost hospital. Several men, including Private Harry Hook, fought them off heroically while patients were dragged to safety. Just following the battle, when a cask of rum was produced, Hook--a life-long teetotaler, passed a cup to the Sergeant who was pouring rounds and said, "I feel I want something after that."