3May/052
To Drink or Not to Drink
Tacitus wrote, that by the ancient Germans it was held no shame at all to drink and swill four and twenty hours together. A gentleman of the court asked: How long ago it was since Tacitus wrote this? He was answered, about fifteen hundred years. Whereupon the gentleman said: Forasmuch as drunkenness has been so ancient a custom, and of such a long descent, let us not abolish it.
-- Martin Luther
And just when I thought living on a college campus had made me privy to every imaginable justification for drunkenness!
May 23rd, 2005 - 19:31
Well, i guess you thought wrong
doesn’t make it the right thing to do, though, but i certainly don’t need to tell YOU that.
where on earth do you find these quotes?
May 23rd, 2005 - 21:31
sorry; it’s a secret. no actually luther said most of his unseemly things when he didn’t know it would be printed. a book called “table talk” is a compilation by his students of things he said around the dinner table.