“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning.”

“A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.”

Henry George Liddell (1811–1898) Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar, and dean

“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish writer

“There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin”

Bob Dylan book Tarantula

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

“It lies deep in our habits, confirmed by all manner of educational and other arrangements for several centuries back, to consider human talent as best of all evincing itself by the faculty of eloquent speech. Our earliest schoolmasters teach us, as the one gift of culture they have, the art of spelling and pronouncing, the rules of correct speech; rhetorics, logics follow, sublime mysteries of grammar, whereby we may not only speak but write. And onward to the last of our schoolmasters in the highest university, it is still intrinsically grammar, under various figures grammar. To speak in various languages, on various things, but on all of them to speak, and appropriately deliver ourselves by tongue or pen,—this is the sublime goal towards which all manner of beneficent preceptors and learned professors, from the lowest hornbook upwards, are continually urging and guiding us.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”

Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason

“I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.”

Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church