Willie Nelson

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Jerry Lewis

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.