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Aeschylus1 quote
Bronze is a mirror of the face, wine of the mind. — AeschylusBenjamin Franklin1 quote
Take counsel in Wine, but resolve afterwards in Water. — Benjamin Franklin · 1733Ernest Hemingway1 quote
A bottle of wine was good company. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Francis Bacon1 quote
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. — Francis Bacon · 1625Heraclitus1 quote
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus · 480 BCHomer1 quote
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. — Homer · 700 BCJohn Gay1 quote
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous? — John Gay · 1728Lord Byron1 quote
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. — Lord Byron · 1819Louis Pasteur1 quote
Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur · 1873Maya Randall1 quote
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. — Maya Randall · 2004Theognis of Megara1 quote
Wine is wont to show the mind of a man. — Theognis of Megara · 485 BC