WINE

Related Subjects: Ale and Beer, Conviviality, Drinking, Grapes

1. One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such an one lives no life at all.—ALCAEUS, Demetrius
   

2. How exceeding strong is wine! It causeth all men to err who drink it.—Apocrypha: I Esdras
   

3. On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena.—ATHENAEUS, The Deipnosophists
   

4. Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.—Bible, Psalms 104:15
   

5. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.—Bible, Proverbs 20:1
   

6. 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. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.—Bible, Proverbs 23:31-33
   

7. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.—Bible, Matthew 9:17
   

8. Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.—Bible, I Timothy 5:23
   

9. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!—BYRON, Don Juan
   

10. When asked what wine he liked to drink, he [Diogenes] replied, "That which belongs to another."—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Diogenes
    

11. Some of the most dreadful mischief s that afflict mankind proceed from wine; it is the cause of disease, quarrels, sedition, idleness, aversion to labour, and every species of domestic disorders.—FENELON, Telemachus
    

12. From wine what sudden friendship springs!—JOHN GAY, The Squire & His Cur
    

13. God 'made Man
    Frail as a bubble;
    God made Love,
    Love made Trouble.
    God made the Vine,
    Was it a sin
    That Man made Wine
    To drown Trouble in?—OLIVER HERFORD, A Plea
    

14. Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind.—HOMER, Iliad
    

15. Tonight with wine drown care.—HORACE, Odes
    

16. 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.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
    

17. Fill me with the old familiar Juice.—OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat

18. I wonder often what the Vintners buy
    One half so precious as the stuff they sell.—OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat
    

19. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
    Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.—MILTON, Comus
    

20. Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief
    To simpleton sages, and reasoning fools.—THOMAS MOORE, Come, Send Round the Wine
    

21. Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
    

22. Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.—Proverb
    

23. Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.—Proverb
    

24. When the wine goes in, strange things come out.—SCHILLER, The Piccolomini
    

25. Good wine needs neither bush not preface
    To make it welcome.—SCOTT, Perveril of the Peak
    

26. Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

27. O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!—SHAKESPEARE, Othello