Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
Source: Letter, 17 Oct. 1899 (published in Collected Letters, vol. 2, 1972), written while on a six-week Mediterranean cruise aboard the S.S. Lusitania.
-- George Bernard Shaw, (Jul 26 1856-1950), Irish dramatist, critic; He is generally recognized as the best dramatist since Shakespeare; promoted social reform with drama of ideas.