Good Things From the French

Here we have a page from my sketch book, in which I begin to explore ways to illustrate a French proverb:

The proverb (if you can't read my chicken scratch) is "praise the god of all, drink the wine, and let the world be the world".  Nathan clued me in to it, and we both like it a lot, so I said I'd make it into a sign for our house (you know, like "home sweet home", only more along the lines of "tend your own affairs").  I'm still deciding if I want to draw/paint it or embroider it...