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Scripture · Religious literature

Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

1st Timothy 5:23

64

★ 7.7

Poem · Epic poem

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 4.0

Take counsel in Wine, but resolve afterwards in Water.

Benjamin Franklin

1733

★ 3.9

Wine is wont to show the mind of a man.

Theognis of Megara

485 BC

★ 3.8

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Don Juan · 1819

★ 3.8

Fragment · Philosophical literature

Bronze is a mirror of the face, wine of the mind.

★ 3.8

Age, that Age appeared to be best in four things: Old Wood best to burn, Old Wine to drink, Old Friends to trust, and old Authors to read.

1625

★ 3.6

Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

1873

★ 3.6

A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Proverbs 31:6

686 BC

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

480 BC

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.

Psalm 104:15

450 BC

★ 2.0

Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

The Beggar's Opera · 1728

★ 1.9

Film · Road movie · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing, how the sun was shining, if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes, and if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now.

Sideways · 2004

★ 1.9

Your true amateur sips his wine; as he lingers over each separate mouthful, he obtains from each the sum total of pleasure that he would have experienced had he emptied his glass at a single draught.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

1825

★ 1.8