who wrote “you are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on?”
Dean Martin.
Well, my uncle used to say that you weren’t drunk until you got down on your hands and knees and dug your fingers into the carpet to keep from falling off.
I doubt that you will find a specific author of your quote (or mine).
In 1829, Thomas Love Peacock wrote (in The Misfortunes of Elphin):
Not drunk is he who from the floor
Can rise alone and drink still more;
But drunk is he who prostrate lies,
Without the power to drink or rise.
(This may be a translation from a Welsh poem; the citation is not perfectly clear to me.)
Tom~
Well, It was probably one of Dean Martin’s writers (the one who collected Welsh poetry) who wrote it, but it is Dean Martin who is widely associated with the phrase.
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Works for me.
This line was most likely written by Joe E. Lewis, (no relation to Jerry) a comedian who was known to pal around with the rat packers and is the subject of the 1957 film “The Joker is Wild.” (Sinatra plays Lewis) Lewis was a famous drunk and a pretty funny guy.
“There is no spoon.”
-The Matrix
another one of my favourites :
(something to the effect of…)
“An Irish man is never drunk so long as he can hold on to a single blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.”
anyone recognize it? anyone know how it actually goes?
“If you can’t answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.” - Elbert Hubbard.
I don’t know, but you are not drunk until someone consumes the last drop of you.