“To go to the wine house and not to get drunk is as difficult as to dive into a pool and not get wet!”
“I could jump in a small swimming pool or dive in the big ocean, and I’d be equally as wet. So it is with love. Somebody get me a towel.”
“With wine, poetry, or virtueas you choose.But get drunk.”
“We might as well study the properties of wine by getting drunk.”
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
“In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!”