Wine

(217 votes)   For those who do not drink wine, may God take away their water.

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(169 votes)   Water for oxen, wine for kings.

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(162 votes)   I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.

Robert Burton
1576-1640, British Clergyman, Scholar

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(133 votes)   Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

Roland Barthes
1915-1980, French Semiologist

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(127 votes)   Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(120 votes)   Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)   This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(109 votes)   If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

Earl Rochester
1647-1680, British Courtier, Poet

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(100 votes)   Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.

French Saying

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