“Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?

You must render: never report.

Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.

The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.

Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.

I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!

Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.

It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas