 | Thomas Benfield Harbottle - Quotations - 1897 - 670 pages
...(Ménage, Menagiana, cd. Amsterdam, 1693, ;>. 139.) "If on my tlieme I rightly think, There are live reasons why men drink : Good wine, a friend, because I'm dry, Or lest I should be by-and-by, Or any other reason why." — (Henry Aldrich.) " Si bene quid facias, facias cito ; nam... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Law - 1899 - 602 pages
...court." It cost him something for contempt. An intemperate barrister sums up five reasons why men drink: If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons...friend, because I'm dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why. The inebriate who, on being reproached for not leading a regular life,... | |
 | Thomas Wilson Reid - Cheshire Cheese (Inn) - 1901 - 280 pages
...England merely to track the pudding to the place of its nativity. CHAPTER VI CALLED TO THE BAR If on thy theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink : Good wine, a friend, because I'm dry, At least, I should be by-and-bye, Or any other reason why. — H. ALDRICH. ABOUT ten o'clock one sharp... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - Alcoholic beverages - 1902 - 504 pages
...Cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. SIR A. TENNYSON, Hands All Round. FIVE REASONS FOR DRINKING If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink : Good wine, a friend. because I 'm dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why. FORGET TROUBLE Fill up the bowl,... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...page 554. BARTHOLOMEW SCHIDONL 1560-1616. I, too, was born in Arcadia.1 JOHN SIRMOND. 1589 (?) -1649. If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink, — Good wine, a friend, becanse I 'm dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why.8 Caum Bibaidi. FRIEDRICH... | |
 | Edward Thomas - Oxford (England) - 1903 - 542 pages
...a smoking catch, and " Hark ! the bonny Christ Church bells " ; and perhaps this translation : — If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink, Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be, by and by, Or any other reason why. The size of his architectural... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...613. BARTHOLOMEW SCHIDONI. 1560-1616. I, too, was born in Arcadia.1 JOHN SIRMOND. 1589 (?) -1649. , ' If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink, — s. Good wine, a friend, because I 'in dry, / Or lest I should be by and by, V^r any other reason... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - Proverbs - 1904 - 500 pages
...quœlibet altéra causa. Père Sirmond, ар. Menagiana, Amsterdam, 1693, p. 139. 318 SIBT— SI CONSILIUM. If on my theme I rightly think There are five reasons...friend ; because I'm dry ; Or lest I should be by and by : Or any other reason why. — Dean Aldrich, 1710. 2505. Sibi quisque ruri metit. Prov. (Plaut.... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - Quotations, English - 1904 - 920 pages
...will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. — Sheffield. If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons...friend, because I'm dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why. — Henry Aldrich, 1647-1710. 0 woman ! lovely woman ! nature made thee... | |
 | Thomas Benfield Harbottle - Quotations - 1906 - 704 pages
...quaelibet altéra causa." РЕВЕ SiKMOM). (Mi'iiiir/c, Menagiana, éd. Amsterdam, Ki'J.'j, p. 189.) " If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons...wine, a friend, because I'm dry, Or lest I should be by-and-by, Or any other reason why." — (Henry Aldrich.) " Si bene quid facias, facias cito ; nam... | |
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If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why. 
