 | Louis Tracy - 1919 - 348 pages
...therefore, he elected for the port. "You are right, too," said Forbes. "You remember Dr. Johnson's dictum: 'Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy'? Tonight, not aspiring to the heroic, we'll stick to port." "It is a curious fact... | |
 | Louis Tracy - 1919 - 328 pages
...take a pull at this!" And the decanter was pushed across the table. " Didn't Dr. Johnson once say that claret is the liquor for boys, port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero should drink brandy? And you must be a hero to-night. Get onto the Bureau and use the soft pedal. Then... | |
 | Frederic Gordon Roe - Painters, British - 1927 - 172 pages
...night, very likely he had to ride home to preach a sermon next morning. As Dr. Johnson once observed, " Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." Certainly those were no days for weaklings, but when we marvel at the prodigious... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...Ibid. To make a man pleased with himself, let me tell you, is doing a very great thing. Ibid., 328. SIR, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Ibid.) 381. GLORY not in making others drunk. Dr. Fuller, II, 22. YOUTH AND AGE... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...morning, would have proved a coward. Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-17984) English author, lexicographer The more characteristic... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play. — Joyce Rebeta-Burditt Claret is the liquor foi boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. — Samuel Johnson I don't drink any more — just the same amount. — Joe E. Lewis... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...philosopher. The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 14-15, "The Value of Saintliness" (1 902). 32 \ ] 5! must drink brandy. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1 709-841, English author, lexicographer. Quoted in: Boswell, Life... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...I. 19 (performed 1598, published 1616). Repr. in The Complete Plays, vol. 1 , ed. GA WMkes(1981). 17 Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in )ames Boswell,... | |
 | Salvatore Calabrese - Cooking - 1997 - 206 pages
...TO-MORROW SEAGER, EVANS & CO., LTD. LONDON, SE8. Opposite . Napoleons brandy, hero of the cocktail hour - "Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. " Samuel Johnson. couRVoI; , IER COGNAC ,LM VEUVE JOYEU5E BUCK'S Fizz Mr McGarry,... | |
 | Mark Pollman - Cooking - 1998 - 188 pages
...recollection, which might be dim, but from immediate sensation. He shook his head, and said: "Poor stuff! No Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men;...the palate; and then brandy will do soonest for a what drinking can do for him. There are, indeed, few who are able to drink brandy. That is a power... | |
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Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy. 
