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The produce of the vineyards has not failed everywhere, Ovidius. The heavy rains have been productive. Coranus made up a hundred jars by means of the water. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. IX, ep. 98) O ye princes and rulers, how exceeding strong is wine! It causeth all men to err that drink it; It maketh the mind of the king and the beggar to be all one, of the bondman and the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich; it turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that a man remembereth neither sorrow nor debt; it changeth and elevateth the spirits, and enliveneth the heavy hearts of the miserable; it maketh a man forget his brethren, and draw his sword against his best friends. - Masonic Manual No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single. - Henry Louis Mencken Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape, Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. - John Milton, Comus (II, 46) Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen. - Charles Forbes Montalembert If with water you fill up your glasses, You'll never write anything wise; For wine is the horse of Parnassus, Which hurries a bard to the skies. - Thomas Moore O Roman punch! O potent Curacoa! O Maraschino! Maraschino O! Delicious drams! Why have you not the art To kill this gnawing Book-worm in my heart? - Thomas Moore, Twopenny Post Bag Drinking of wine maketh men to act like so many furies. - Nathaniel Morton Wine maketh a man act like an ass in a rich pasture. - ud-Din Zahir Muhammad ("Babur") I hold to the utter abandonment of the use as a beverage of distilled and fermented liquors of every sort, especially of wines, whether having much or little alcohol in them. - Eliphalet Nott Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 237) Wine is a cunning wrestler. - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Pseudolus (act V, 1, 5) Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) It has passed into a proverb, that wisdom is overshadowed by wine. [Lat., In proverbium cessit, sapientiam vino adumbrari.] - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus), Historia Naturalis (XXIII, 23, 1) It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus), Natural History (bk. XIV, sec. XIV) There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. - Plutarch Wine is an abomination. - Ptahhotep I do not drink more than a sponge. [Fr., Je ne boy en plus qu'une esponge.] - Francois Rabelais, Gargantua (bk. I, ch. XLII) We care not for money, riches, nor wealth; Old sack is our money, old sack is our wealth. - Thomas Randolph, The Praise of Old Sack Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness. - Rachel Russell (Lady Russell) Wine invents nothing; it only tattles. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wine tells nothing, it only tattles. [Ger., Der Wein erfindet nichts, er schwatzt's nur aus.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Piccolomini (IV, 7, 42) Wine kindles wrath. [Lat., Vinum incendit iram.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira (bk. II, 19) Displaying page 4 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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