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1 " Había un proverbio sumerio que decía "Él es temeroso, como un hombre que no conoce la cerveza" y otro, todavía más revelador, que decía "No conocer la cerveza no es normal". "
― Mark Forsyth , A Short History of Drunkenness
2 " This leads to the great theory of human history: that we didn’t start farming because we wanted food—there was loads of that around. We started farming because we wanted booze. "
3 " When the Ancient Persians had a big political decision to make they would debate the matter twice: once drunk, and once sober. If they came to the same conclusion both times, they acted. "
4 " This teaches us the important moral lesson that it’s absolutely fine to get pass-out-naked pissed, but it is absolutely not all right to notice. You should politely avert your eyes. "
5 " if authors were to let a trifling thing like ignorance stop them from writing, the bookshops would be empty. "
6 " Así pues, ¿por qué nos establecemos? La línea tradicional dice que lo hicimos para cultivar comida. En ese caso, quizá comenzamos a preparar bebidas. Y luego comenzamos a construir grandes templos y nos civilizamos "