wine

"Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."

"But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine, Which is the mermaid's now, but shall be mine."

"Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted."

"Dance and Provençal song and sunburnt mirth! Oh for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth."

"There is a devil in every berry of the grape."

"Filled with the wine Of the vine Benign That flames so red in Sansavine."

"When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames."

"Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no ivie bush."

"The produce of the vineyards has not failed everywhere, Ovidius. The heavy rains have been productive. Coranus made up a hundred jars by means of the water."

"If with water you fill up your glasses, You'll never write anything wise; For wine is the horse of Parnassus, Which hurries a bard to the skies."

"O Roman punch! O potent Curaçoa! O Maraschino! Maraschino O! Delicious drams! Why have you not the art To kill this gnawing Book-worm in my heart?"

"Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter fruit."

"The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute."

"Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est."

"It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth."

"In proverbium cessit, sapientiam vino adumbrari."

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging."

"Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup;… at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."

"It is not for kings, O Lemuel-- not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer, lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights. Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."

"Wine that maketh glad the heart of man."

"We care not for money, riches, nor wealth; Old sack is our money, old sack is our wealth."

"Der Wein erfindet nichts, er schwatzt's nur aus."

"Vinum incendit iram."

"Like the best wine,… that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak."

"Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink."

"Wine in excess is a snare for the fool; it lessens strength and multiplies wounds."

"You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell."

"When the wine's in, murder will out."

"He has had a smack of every sort of wine, from humble port to Imperial Tokay."

"The hop for his profit I thus do exalt, It strengtheneth drink, and it favoureth malt: And being well brewed, long kept it will last, And drawing abide—if you draw not too fast."

"And must I wholly banish hence These red and golden juices, And pay my vows to Abstinence, That pallidest of Muses?"

"7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the ."

"11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened; the mirth of the land is gone."

"Vina paract animos, faciuntque coloribus aptos: Cura fugit multo diluiturque mero."

"Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape, Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine."

"Clare takes a mouthful, swallows it in a businesslike fashion, and says, “Well, that’s not so bad.” “That’s a twenty-something-dollar bottle of wine.” “Oh. Well, that was marvelous.”"

"Instead of Dresden, chance brought us to the Rhine, and we took advantage of the opportunity and travelled along the Rhine with steamer. Just think of the places we passed! Past Hochheim, where there's Hochheimer wine, past Rüdesheim, where there's Rüdesheimer wine, past Johannisberg, where there's Johannisberger wine, and then there's Markobrunn, where there's Markobrunner wine: how could we not have a drink? So we drank some Rhine wine and composed a song about it, which we'll send you soon."

"A singer in a smoky room; the smell of wine and cheap perfume."

"Vinum bonum laetificat cor hominis."

"In vino veritas."

"“They say wine will kill you slowly.” He nodded his head solemnly. “But that’s all right, we’re in no hurry.”"

"A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't."

"Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me, nor a man cannot make him laugh. But that’s no marvel: he drinks no wine. There’s never none of these demure boys come to any proof, for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood, and making many fish meals, that they fall into a kind of male green-sickness; and then when they marry, they get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards, which some of us should be too, but for inflammation. A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it: it ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and cruddy vapors which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second property of your excellent sherris is the warming of the blood, which before, cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice; but the sherris warms it, and makes it course from the inwards to the parts’ extremes. It illumineth the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart; who, great and puffed up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage. And this valour comes of sherris. So that skill in the weapon is nothing without sack, for that sets it awork; and learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till sack commences it, and sets it in act and use. Hereof comes it, that Prince Harry is valiant, for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath, like lean, sterile and bare land, manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack."

"... good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people."

"Give me a bowl of wine; In this I bury all unkindness."

"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!"

"Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used; exclaim no more against it."

"Give me a bowl of wine: I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have."

"Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities."

"Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past."