Frank Sinatra

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. - Frank Sinatra 1915 - 1998

Grant's Brand of Whiskey.

Lincoln was not a man of impulse, and did nothing upon the spur of the moment; action with him was the result of deliberation and study. He took nothing for granted; he judged men by their performances and not their speech.

If a general lost battles, Lincoln lost confidence in him; if a commander was successful, Lincoln put him where he would be of the most service to the country.

"Grant is a drunkard," asserted powerful and influential politicians to the President at the White House time after time; "he is not himself half the time; he can't be relied upon, and it is a shame to have such a man in command of an army."

"So Grant gets drunk, does he?" queried Lincoln, addressing himself to one of the particularly active detractors of the soldier, who, at that period, was inflicting heavy damage upon the Confederates.

"Yes, he does, and I can prove it," was the reply.

"Well," returned Lincoln, with the faintest suspicion of a twinkle in his eye, "you needn't waste your time getting proof; you just find out, to oblige me, what brand of whiskey Grant drinks, because I want to send a barrel of it to each one of my generals."

That ended the crusade against Grant, so far as the question of drinking was concerned.

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965

Peter O Toole

Having caught a wonderful London performance of My Favorite Year I thought, as he stumbled over floor-stand-ash-tray, ..."the guy is drunk." Then catching a cab after the show, it became apparent that they were comic prat-falls when the cabby said, "Mr. O'Toole - was probably drunk again as usual - last night's customers say he couldn't keep from running into the ash-tray."Gargoyle

"I wouldn't have missed one drop of alcohol that I drank," he told Us magazine in 1989. He quit long ago but it's still what everybody wants to know about him. Still drinking? He played a fabulous drunken movie idol in "My Favorite Year" in 1982, and then last year a drunken magazine columnist on the London stage in "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell," but he's been dry now for more than a decade, he says, taking only countless glasses of water or little green Tic Tacs to keep his mouth wet.

Peter O'Toole to the Last Drop

The Actor on His Life, Half Empty or Totally Full Martha Sherrill. Washington Post, April 24, 1993; D: 1, 7

Sincerely,
Gargoyle