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Wine Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a…
- 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.
- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
- 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…
- Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone
- We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but…
- No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
- Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
- I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.
- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is,…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. — Honore de Balzac
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire
- Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and… — Gina Barreca
- 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