George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Tenure is an artificial protection for a job regardless of performance.

I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night.

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

Tenure protects good teachers from being fired for bad reasons.

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.

I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

I will strengthen our unions and our middle-class families so that no longer will they be pushed around by employers but will finally have a seat at the table.

Who wants to get sacked? Not me.

I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk.

All of these 'protections' were put into place to provide public school teachers with the kind of job security and cushy work rules that United Auto Workers have enjoyed.