truth

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on it's shoes. Mark Twain

death

A few years at best, and as many an empty belly as a full one. And in the end, death waited, ever-hungry and hungriest of them all.

Jack London from the law of life

delight

We delight in good chances; we laugh at mischances.

Philip Sidney from An apology for poetry

that'll teach ya

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway