(defending his taste for alcohol)
I'm so holy that when I touch wine, it turns into water.
Aldrich Henry 1647-1710
A Catch
If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine, a friend, or being dry,
Or lest we should be by and by;
Or any other reason why.
Attlee Clement 1883-1967
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being
able to put new wine into old bottles without busting them.
Baudelaire Charles 1821-1867
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes: ch.10 v.19
Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
Old Testament: Proverbs ch.31 v.6
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Buchwald Art
When it came to writing about wine, I did what everyone else did - faked it.
Butler Samuel „Hudibras" 1612-1680
Genuine Remains „Miscellaneous Thoughts"
All love at first, like generous wine,
Ferments and frets, until ´tis fine;
But when ´tis settled on the lee,
And from th'impurer matter free,
Becomes the richer still, the older,
And proves the pleasanter, the colder.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Don Juan
Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
COTGRAVE Randle
Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
Dowson Ernest 1867-1900
„Vitae Summa Brevis"
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
Gay John 1685-1732
The Beggar's Opera
Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?
Herrick Robert 1591-1674
‘An Ode for him' [Ben Jonson]
And yet each verse of thine
Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Jonson Ben c. 1573-1637
‚,To Celia"
Drink to me only with thine eyes
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
Keats John 1795-1821
Endymion
Here is wine,
Alive with sparkles.
Milton John 1608-1674
Samson Agonistes
Lords are lordliest in their wine.
Ovid 43 BC-AD c. 17
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the
wine and the dark.
Phillips Stephen 1864-1915
Ulysses
Behold me now
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.
Not over-jealous, yet an eager husband.
Plato 429-347 BC
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year,
for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Pliny (The Elder) AD 23-79
Natural History
In vino veritas.
Truth comes out in wine.
Powell Anthony 1905-
The Acceptance World
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic
features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
Proverbs and Sayings
Polish
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water,
in butter and in wine.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
As You Like It
I pray you, do not fall in love with me,
For I am falser than vows made in wine.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere less
Os left this vault to brag of.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘To the Revd F.D. Maurice'
You'll have no scandal while you dine,
But honest talk and wholesome wine.
Traherne Thomas c.1637-1674
‘Wonder'
I within did flow
With seas of life, like wine.
I nothing in this world did know,
But ‘twas divine!
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
English conversationalists have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
A Drinking Song
Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.