Brain Quote by Aristophanes

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it…

— Anthony Trollope

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

— Avicenna

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like,…

— Gerald Asher

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

— Aristophanes

“Such a stupid excuse was even more degrading! In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what…

— Samuel Johnson

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened…

— Pliny the Elder

“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes…

— Seneca

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

— Samuel Johnson

Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric…

— Joseph Addison

“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”

— Samuel Johnson