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Wine Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we…
- In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
- Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long,…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
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- A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire
- Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. — Sarah Bernhardt
- I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce