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• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
  -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)...
• Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1734-1794)...
• Sleep is better than medicine. -- Proverb
• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
  The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. -- George Bernard Shaw...
• A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts. -- Harver's Law
• No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
  -- Samuel Stiles, 19th Century English write...
• She has been under more drunken sailors than a naval head.
• Cucumbers can stay up all night, and you won't have to sleep in the wet spot.
  -- Reasons why cucumbers are better than me...
• Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts for support rather than illumination.