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Wine And Spirits Quotes
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It has passed into a proverb, that wisdom is overshadowed by wine. (Quote by - Pliny the Elder)
Light wines--nothing so treacherous. They inflame the brain like fire while melting on the palate like ice. All inhabitants of light-wine countries are quarrelsome. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. (Quote by - Homer)
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Wine is bottled poetry. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
You cannot know wine by the barrell. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. (Quote by - Bible)
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage. (Quote by - Joseph Hall)
Wine-drinking is the mother of all mischief, the root of crimes, the spring of vices, the whirlwind of the brain, the overthrow of the sense, the tempest of the tongue, the ruin of the body, the shame of life, the stain of honesty, and the plague and corruption of the soul. (Quote by - Saint Aurelius Augustine)
Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)
You often hear the remark that "there is no harm in a glass of wine per se." Per se means by itself. Certainly there is no harm in a glass of wine by itself. Place a glass of wine on a shelf and let it remain there, and it is per se, and will harm no one. But if you take it from the shelf and turn it inside a man, then it is no longer per se. (Quote by - George Washington Bain)
The hop for his profit I thus do exalt, It strengthened drink, and it favoureth malt: And being well brewed, long kept it will last, And drawing abide--if you draw not too fast. (Quote by - Thomas Tusser)
Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)