soda quotes

When red wine had brought red ruin And the death-dance of our times, Heaven sent us Soda Water As a torment for our crimes.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 4. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).

The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

- George Augustus Henry Sala
  On seeing Niagara Falls for the first time. My Diary in America in the Midst ofWar.