Hitting The Bottle, The Water Bottle, That Is! Staying Hydrated During Senior Work-outs ... As dehydration sets in, the blood capacity is lessened, and the ability of your blood to carry oxygen is depressed. Persisting in a workout while dehydrated can cause a dip in blood pressure, dizziness, nausea, or fainting, essentially the symptoms of heat exhaustion...
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentucky where they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don’t try to take it too quick. And don’t try to do all of it at once. I don’t do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)