He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
