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“The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

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

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Author:Victor Hugo

“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.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.”

“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.”

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Book:Mark Twain's notebook

Source: Mark Twain's notebook

“If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.”

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Author:Alexander Fleming

“I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I do not drink more than a sponge.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

“Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.”

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Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."”

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Book:A Handbook of Gastronomy

Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy

“Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”

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Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc

Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc

“When the wine is in, the wit is out.”

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Author:Thomas Becon

“Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.”

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Author:Edouard de Pomiane

“The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.”

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Author:D. H. Lawrence

“WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.”

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Author:Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

“Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.”

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Author:Andre Simon

“Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.”

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Author:Julia Child

“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”

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Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.”

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Author:Pliny the Elder

“Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.”

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Author:John Arlott

“Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“All worries are less with wine.”

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

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