Matthias de l'Obel quotes

Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to their several dispositions, become either dead drunke, or foolish drunke, or madde drunke.
-- Matthias de l'Obel

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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.

I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work