You that would last long, list to my song, Make no more coil, but buy of this oil. Would you be ever fair and young? Stout of teeth and strong of tongue? Tart of palate, quick of ear? Sharp of sight, of nostril clear? Moist of hand and light of foot? (Or, I will come nearer to it) Would you live free from all diseases, Do the act your mistress pleases; Yet fright all aches from your bones? Here's a medicine for the nones.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

I laugh a lot. It burns lots of calories.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

I went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.