There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.

Leadership is the ability to make things happen.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

When women do better, economies do better.

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.