Abraham Cowley Quote

Fill all the glasses there, for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?


From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?

Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?

Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?

Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?