“If wine tells truth, – and so have said the wise, –
It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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- “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies
- A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you
- Laugh and the world laughs with you;
- Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol
- The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
- The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
- BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody