Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.

Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.

And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell,
Who first invented this leathern bottel!

And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell,
Who first invented this leathern bottel!

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he read more

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.

Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal Health goes round.
Fill up the Bowl then, fill read more

Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal Health goes round.
Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--
Fill all the Glasses there; for why
Should every Creature Drink but I?
Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain,
And drinks, and gapes for Drink again;
The Plants suck read more

The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain,
And drinks, and gapes for Drink again;
The Plants suck in the Earth and are
With constant Drinking fresh and fair.