A. J. Liebling Quotes, Stupid Quotes, Wine Quotes

Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

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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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Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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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.

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A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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Wine is like beer except different.

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The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

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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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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

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The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

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