One should always be drunk. That's all that matters. . . But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
If all the earth were paper white And all the sea were ink 'Twere not enough for me to write As my poor heart doth think.
Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
What's the difference between a Rottweiler and a poodle peeing on your leg? You let the Rottweiler finish.
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.