Wine

"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."

"Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest."

"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better."

"Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after."

"Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!—Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things."

"What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything,—in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree."

"I love everything that 's old,—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

"I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself."

"Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good; "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried: He drank the poison, and his spirit died."

"Old Simon the cellarer keeps a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie."

"John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, 'Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy."

"So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven, And all the passengers he bore Were on the new world set ashore, He made it next his chief design To plant and propagate a vine, Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd Far greater numbers, on dry ground, Of wretched mankind, one by one, Than all the flood before had done."

"Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls."

"Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels."

"Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company."

"The conscious water saw its God and blushed."

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."

"When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another.""

"Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through Under the Andes to the Cape, Suffered no savor of the earth to escape."

"From wine what sudden friendship springs?"

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

"Call things by their right names * * * Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."

"The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst."

"Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table."

"You cannot know wine by the barrel."

"Sparkling and bright, in liquid light, Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in."

"And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile."

"Nunc vino pellite curas."

"Vino diffugiunt mordaces curæ."

"Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?"

"Spes donare novas largus, amaraque Curarum eluere efficax."

"Fœcundi calices quem non fecere disertum."

"A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance."

"When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."

"Jeremiah was a bull frog Was a good friend of mine I never understood a single word he said But I helped him a-drink his wine And he always had some mighty fine wine."

"For when the wine is in, the wit is out."

"WINE, n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum."

"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."

"Tell me what you drink, and I will tell you what you are"

"Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them."

"A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. 'Much obliged,' said he, pushing the dish away from him, 'but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in pills.'"

"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after."

"To me wine is just so much spoiled fruit juice."

"Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!"

"Wine in, truth out."

"A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell."

"I rather like bad wine … one gets so bored with good wine."

"Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what you do."

"Once... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days."