Quotes About Delirium Tremens

#1. Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous combustion. When I say natural death, I mean it was a natural death for Jimmy Finn.

Mark Twain

#2. The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

H.L. Mencken

#3. People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. There

Mark Twain

#4. Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

Leslie Stephen

#5. But anybody who's never had delirium tremens even in their early stages may not understand that it's not so much a physical pain but a mental anguish indescribable to those ignorant people who dont drink and accuse drinkers of irresponsibility.

Jack Kerouac

#6. If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

Dan Rice

#7. Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.

Samael Aun Weor

#8. Of the four poets with whom Bascomb was customarily grouped one had shot himself, one had drowned himself, one had hanged himself, and the fourth had died of delirium tremens.

John Cheever

#9. The "delirium tremens" of alcoholic drunkards has unmistakable symptoms, but that of those intoxicated with theories is easily confused with genius.

Samael Aun Weor

#10. A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Arthur Miller

#11. It's no sin to tell a good story.

Steven Heighton

#12. It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.

Mellody Hobson

#13. When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

Bill Haley

#14. You are a human being and it is difficult for you to deliver yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#15. How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

Salma Hayek

#16. They say that Good ultimately wins, OK! Sir, Agreed! but the win-loss record of Good vs. Evil is like population of (Moldova vs. China).

Mohit Sharma

#17. You're going to stay here. You're going to get strong. And then, when your mind is as empty as your glass, you'll know what to do.

Kaya McLaren

#18. I close my eyes and suddenly remember something Nina had told me the night before my first day of middle school: If you're going somewhere where you feel like you might not belong, the only person you need to work to convince is yourself. Everyone else is easy.

Lynn Weingarten

#19. Who among us - if it means letting go of the insanity, the mystery, the totally useless beauty of the million once-possible New Yorks - is ready even now to give up hope? BOOK

Garth Risk Hallberg

#20. For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.

William Somervile

#21. By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

Natan Sharansky