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“God made only water, but man made wine.”

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Victor Hugo, a French romantic poet, novelist, and playwright, was born on February 26, 1802, and died on May 22, 1885. He is considered one of the greatest writers in French literary history, known for his profound humanistic concerns and rich imagination. more

“Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.”

Long Use Strong Stuff Water Boys Rich Clear Written Blood Drink Please Wine Cups Burning Tonight Host Pale Selection Chill Purple Juice Dew Grapes Decree Drinkers Sparkling Sluggish Nymphs Bacchus

Author:Horace

“The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.”

Literature Water Stupid Stones Foolish Righteous Smallest Ripple Carving Durability

Author:Horace

“A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.”

Men Water Secret Drink Fellows Fellow Man

Book:Artificial Paradise: On Hashish and Wine as Means of Expanding Individuality

Source: Artificial Paradise: On Hashish and Wine as Means of Expanding Individuality

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”

Source: Five plays

“There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.”

Persons Said Young Water Drink Daughter My Daughter They Said

Book:Complete Nonsense

Source: Complete Nonsense

“Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.”

Men Art Water Food Drink Cooking Wine Aids Wicked Culinary Good Man Dislike Liquid Vines Wine Making

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”

Water Wine Resolve Food And Wine

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

“Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.”

Said Suffering Water Natural Known Medicine Drinking Disorder Thirst Suitable Drinking Water Drink Water Beverages

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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