Wine Quote by Thomas Jefferson

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

— Thomas Jefferson

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

— Thomas Jefferson

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

— Thomas Jefferson

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

— Will Rogers

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— Adam Smith

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

— Eugene O'Neill

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Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

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— Kate Hopkins

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— Roland Barthes

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Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

— P. J. O'Rourke