“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.”

-Henry Lawson

“I’m willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it.”

-Jarod Kintz

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”

-Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher

“Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night.”

-Chuck Palahniuk

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

-Oscar Wilde

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”

-Aleister Crowley

“Crime does not pay… as well as politics.”

-Alfred E. Newman

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

-Nick Hornby

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”

-Hunter S. Thompson

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

-Mitch Albom

“Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”

-George Santayana

“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

-Maya Angelou

“Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.”

-Charles R. Swindoll

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

-Ernest Hemmingway

“There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know.”

-William Cowper

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

-Ernest Hemmingway

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man.”

-Lord Acton

“Magic’s just science we don’t understand yet.”

-Arthur C. Clarke

“I wish my stove came with a save as button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.”

-Jarod Kintz

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

-Charles Bukowski

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

-C. S. Lewis

“A journey is like a marriage.  The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

-John Steinbeck

“I can resist anything, except temptation.”

-Oscar Wilde

“It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you’re going away.”

-Michael Arlen