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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Lips, however rosy, must be fed.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.

I wept when I was born and every day explains why.

If you want to have a good day, take a shave; a good month, slay a pig; a good year, marry; but if you want all your days to be good, become a priest.

Only God helps the badly dressed.

Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot.

U.S. film-maker

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.