How the Protestant Reformation Got Started

The following is from records of people recalling what Martin Luther said around his dinner table:

Luther: "Tomorrow I have to lecture on the drunkenness of Noah [Gen. 9:20-27], so I should drink enough this evening to be able to talk about that wickedness as one who knows by experience."

Dr. Cordatus [his guest]: "By no means; you ought to do the opposite!"

To this Luther responded, "One must make the best of the vices that are peculiar to each land.  The Bohemians gorge themselves, the Wends [Slavic settlers in Saxony] steal, the Germans swill without stopping.  How would you outdo a German, dear Cordatus, except by making him drunk---especially a German who doesn't love music and women?"