In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

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.

Overcome obstacles as they come rather than worry about when they will arrive.

Test all things. But hold fast to the good.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.

I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.