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

More from Ernest Hemingway

• Do not start blaming who you love, or apportioning guilt, for it will all be apportioned in good time, and not by you.
• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
• Never mistake motion for action.
• The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.
• 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincedence? I think not.
• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.