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"I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic."
"Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one."
"Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting."
"The oil and wine of merry meeting."
"The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest."
"His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine."
"The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad."
"A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine."
"Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness."
"A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't."
"I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine."
"If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue."
"I am falser than vows made in wine."
"Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government."
"I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen."
"When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something."
"Poetry is devil's wine."
"Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor."
"Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes."
"Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine."
