DISSIPATION

Related Subjects: Corruption, Drinking, Excess, Idleness, Rake, Sensuality, Sin, Vice

1. Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus
   

2. Wasted his substance with riotous living.—Bible: Luke 15:13
   

3. I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

4. Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.—RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, The Quest of the Golden Girl
   

5. Dissipation is absolutely a labor when the round of Vanity Fair has been once made; but fashion makes us think lightly of the toil, and we describe the circles as mechanically as a horse in a mill.—J. G. ZIMMERMAN