“It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.”

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

Character is destiny.

Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.

Nothing endures but change.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

A man’s character is his fate.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

There is nothing permanent except change.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Silence, healing.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

The whisky brings back all the memories of you.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

If you’re not drinkin’, then you’re not playin’.

Lately I been drinking like there’s a message in a bottle.

Sometimes I don’t drink so the next day I can remember having fun.