Angry Drunken Dwarf

Famous quotes containing the words angry, drunken and/or dwarf:

    Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer.
    —Stanley Rudin. The New York Times (August 22, 1963)

    The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    When I lie down to love,
    old dwarf heart shakes her head.
    Like an imbecile she was born old.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)