Draught Quotes

61 quotes by 55 authors

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do,… — John Burroughs
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine… — Maya Angelou
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy… — George Arnold
One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. — Friedrich Schiller
Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him… — Henry David Thoreau
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts… — Rabindranath Tagore
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. — Frederick Marryat
It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in… — Zadie Smith
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of… — Thomas Noon Talfourd
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the… — Charles Baudelaire
I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large… — Frederick Locker-Lampson
He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… — Evelyn Waugh
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught. — Laurence Sterne
I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on… — Warren G. Harding
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered… — Garry Kasparov
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its… — Epictetus
Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache… — Louis L'Amour

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