Bars Quote by Robert Harris

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

— Anonymous

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

— Ben Okri

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

— Ernest Hemingway

I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I…

— Antonio Gates

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

— Charlie Chaplin

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit…

— Agnes Repplier

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A man really determines himself by what he does.

— Vin Scully

The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more…

— B. C. Forbes

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there…

— Michel de Montaigne

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

— William James