"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder."
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine."
Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
"If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes."
Kerouac
"Aw, I don't want go to no such thing, I just want drink in alleys".
(But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine).
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it" I yelled. "Have a shot"
Anonymous
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still more when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
John Keats
"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
Paolo Coelho, Brida
"Accept what life offers and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, you should drink the whole bottle."
That Baudelaire was a wag!
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters. But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. but get drunk."
Natural History, Pliny the Elder
"In wine, there's truth."
Portions
Does wine count as a serving of fruit?