Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
Good wine needs no bush.
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
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.
Where there is no wine there is no love.
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
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