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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sleep

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• A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Laughing, Vineyards

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [95]

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• Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Drinking, Glasses, Looks

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• Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

  Will Rogers

  Years, Long, Ill

  Will Rogers (1919). “Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition”

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• Wine unlocks the breast.

  Horace

  Breasts

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• A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.

  Georg Riedel

  Horse, Needs, Taming

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• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tolerance, Vines, Vineyards

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• Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

  Duff Cooper

  Romance, Literature, Pages

  Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

  Alexander Fleming

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Blood, Names, Rivers

  "Wine Buyers Guide".

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• Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

  Catullus

  Water, Destruction

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Catullus (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics

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• It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

  Ovid

  Eye, Blood, Allies

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion.

  Andre Simon

  Meals, Vineyards, Bordeaux

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• I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

  Art Buchwald

  Feet, Taste, Champagne

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• The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Witty, Stars

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• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Glasses, Years, Age

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• Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  Pope John XXIII

  Birthday, Drinking, Men

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• A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Cute, Marriage

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• For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation of all peoples. May the humility of the Bride cause to shine forth still more brightly the glory and power of the Eucharist, which she celebrates and treasures in her heart. In the sign of the consecrated Bread and Wine, Christ Jesus risen and glorified, the light of the nations, reveals the enduring reality of His Incarnation. He remains living and real in our midst in order to nourish the faithful with His Body and Blood.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Real, Heart

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

  Horace

  Mean, Light, Giving

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

  Thomas Jefferson

  Alcohol, Vineyards, Beverages

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

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• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

  William Shakespeare

  Vineyards, Drink, Grapes

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

  Henry Aldrich

  Drinking, Food, Thinking

  'Reasons for Drinking'

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• When the wine is in, the wit is out.

  Thomas Becon

  Drinking, Food, Alcohol

  'Catechism' (ed. J. Ayre, 1844) p. 375

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