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• [I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

  Homer

  Men, Wisest Man, Dancing

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

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• And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

  John Milton

  Son, Night, Alcohol

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 500

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• You can't cheat an honest man.

  W. C. Fields

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Title of motion picture (1939).

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• I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

  George Mikes

  Hangover, Night, Next Day

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• There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

  Isak Dinesen

  Way, Recognition, Burgundy

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.100, Vintage

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• For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

  Edouard de Pomiane

  Food, Gourmet, Host

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• To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
  Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

  Alexander Pope

  Purple, Vines, Slumber

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.533, Oxford University Press

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• After-dinner talk
  Across the walnuts and the wine.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dinner, Walnuts

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Seamen three! what men be ye?
  Gotham's three Wise Men we be.
  Whither in your bowl so free?
  To rake the moon from out the sea.
  The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine,
  And our ballast is old wine.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Wise, Moon, Men

  Thomas Love Peacock (1850). “Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey”, p.152

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• Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
  On her sweet self set her own price,
  Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
  How has she cheapened paradise;
  How given for nought her priceless gift,
  How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine,
  Which, spent with due respective thrift,
  Had made brutes men and men divine.

  Coventry Patmore

  Sweet, Men, Self

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The angel in the house. The victories of love”

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• Go fetch to me a pint o' wine,
  An' fill it in a silver tassie.

  Robert Burns

  Fetch, Silver, Pints

  'My Heart's in the Highlands' (1790)

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• Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.

  Clement Freud

  Writing, Bullshit, Mouths

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  Euripides

  Grief, Sleep, Son

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Running, Writing, Men

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
  Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

  John Milton

  Crush, Sweet, Purple

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.70

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• That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

  Joseph Epstein

  Drinking, Beer, Beer Drinking

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• What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Dream, Taste

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Travel, Book, Drinking

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  it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

  Kenny Chesney

  Summer, Kissing, Summertime

  Song: Summertime, Album: The Road And The Radio, 2005

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• When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Drinking, Food, Alcohol

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.529

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• I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Training, World, Bottles

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• A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

  Alexis Lichine

  Glasses, Gold, Add

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• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Names, Alcohol

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [293]

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• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

  Roland Barthes

  Country, Drinking, Drunk

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• We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Emotional, Long

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52

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