Posts Tagged ‘Drinking’


Rabbit Maranville

“There is much less drinking now than there was before 1927, because I quit drinking on May 24, 1927.”

–Hall of Fame shortstop Rabbit Maranville

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Quoted in The Heretic’s Handbook of Quotations

Front cover of "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations


Mikhail Bakunin

“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.”

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–Mikhail Bakunin, A Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy