“Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.”

“Why else lead a life of bad banquet dinners, cigar smoke, camp chairs, foul breath, and excruciatingly dull jargon if not to avoid the echoes of what is not known.”

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”

“And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”

“Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story”

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

“Never be ashamed. Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. How will I know which is which? By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.”

“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”

“There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.”