Plato Quotes, Taken Quotes, Wine Quotes

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Wine Quotes , Roots Quotes

How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

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The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

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A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

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Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

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If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

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Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

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If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wine Quotes , Glasses Quotes