I am no book larnt man, but there is few who can beat me swapping horses or guessing at the weight of a bar. I have come here beca...use my people voted for me, knowing I was a honest man and could make as good whiskey and apple brandy at my still as any man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some p...hysical aid to their moral consolations--wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift... and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language must be raked, the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous hole that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell wh...at negro slavery has been. These men, our benefactors, as they are producers of corn and wine, of coffee, of tobacco, of cotton, of sugar, of rum and brandy; gentle and joyous themselves, and producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,--there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,--I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there. Their case was left out of the mind and out of the heart of their brothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,... And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Five and twenty ponies Trotting through the dark--... Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the first thing that savage tribes accept from Europeans nowadays? Brandy and Christianity, the European narcotics.--And w...hat is it that most rapidly leads to their destruction?--The European narcotics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace.... Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »