Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.

No matter how difficult things may seem, all things are possible.

Understanding life is like trying to put together a puzzle with pieces that don't fit.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.