I do not drink more than a sponge.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

Never did a great man hate good wine.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.