"The wise man does not fear death, for it is but a journey to the beloved."

"I can't trust those who sneer at us drinking down to the lees: That is the kind of thing which gets a bad name for religion."

"I am a slave of the wine-drinking sage of Shiraz."

"O thou void of knowledge of the joy of the perpetual wine-drinking of ours."

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."