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If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons why men drink, Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by-and-by, Or any other reason why.
The fine wine leaves you with something pleasant; the ordinary wine just leaves.
Quhen Alysaunder oure kyng wes dede, That Scotland led in lauche and le, Away wes sons of alle and brede, Off wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle; Oure gold wes changyd in to lede. Cryst, borne in to virgynyte, Succour Scotland, and remede, That stad is in perplexyte.
Late at e'en, drinkin'the wine, And ere they paid the lawin', They set a combat them between, To fight it at the dawin'. 'O stayat hame, my noble lord, O stay at hame, my marrow! My cruel brother will you betray On the dowie houms o' Yarrow!'
The king sits in Dunfermline town, Drinking the blude-red wine; 'O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?'
Il est l'heure de s'enivrer! Pour n'e" tre pas les esclaves martyrise s duTemps, enivrez-vous sans cesse! De vin, de poe sie ou de vertu, a' votre guise. This is the time for drunkenness! Be not the martyred slaves of Time, drink without stopping! Drink wine, poetry, or virtue, as you please.
Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn, And the tedding and the spreading Of the straw for a bedding, And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees And the wine that tasted of the tar?
Omnes nimirum, ex quo monachi sumus, infirmos stomachos habemus, et tam necessarium Apostoli de utendo vino consilium merito non negligimus. Modico, tamen quod ille praemissit, nescio cur praetermisso. Being monks, we all naturally have a weak stomach, and we therefore justly attend to the Apostle's advice to use wine. He adds, however, the words 'a little'; I can't think why I have omitted them.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
A feast ismade for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 104
The first wrote,Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote,Women are strongest: but above all thingsTruth beareth away the victory.
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Wine and womenwill make men of understanding to fall away: and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.
Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad.
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
When therulerof the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.
If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apttoteach; Not giventowine, nostriker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutelyset, ingeniousmachinefor turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep: and like a giant refreshed with wine.
Theyare the last drops of vintage wine from a musty old bottle.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like winethrough water, and altered the colour of my mind.
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink, before I go, A service to my bonie lassie.
There's death in the cupsae beware! Nay, morethere is danger in touching; But wha can avoid the fell snare? The man and his wine's sae bewitching!
'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels By blood or ink; 'tis sweet to put an end To strife; 'tis sometimes sweet to have our quarrels, Particularly with a tiresome friend; Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels; Dear is the helpless creature we defend Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot.
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine. 'Idon'tcare wherethewatergoesif it doesn't get intothe wine.'
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.
Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Theyare not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth.
Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verseand Thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise enow.
Give me the plumpVenetian, fat, and lusty, That meets me soft and supple, smiles upon me As if a cup of full wine leaped to kiss me.
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Yo no digo por eso que el te no sea saludablecuando duelen las tripaspero al cabo no pasa de ser agua caliente; so lo pod|a habernos venido de Inglaterra, que como all | son herejes, ni tendra n vino, ni bueyes cebones. I'm not saying that tea is not healthywhen you have a stomach achebut, all in all, it is only hot water; it could only come from the English, who, being heretics as they are, probably have no wine or good beer.
Sure there was wine Before my sighs did dry it; there was corn Before my tears did drown it. 398
Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Palate, the hutch of tasty lust, Desire not to be rinsed with wine: The can must be so sweet, the crust So fresh that come in fasts divine!
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Drink to me, only, with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
Here is wine, Alive with sparklesnever, I aver, Since Ariadne was a vintager, So cool a purple.
Give me books, fruit, frenchwineand fine weatherand a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
Fast fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women.You must entirely resist both temptations, and while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy.Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
I have chased the English out of France more easily than my fathereverdid, for my fatherdrovethemout by force of arms, whereas I have driven them out with venison pies and good wine.
Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French, And some'll swallow tay and stuff fit only for a wench. 559
For singing till his heaven fills 'Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which overflows.
Lie soft, sleep hard, drink wine, and eat good cheer.
And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
As with new wine intoxicated both They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings Wherewith to scorn the earth.
Lords are lordliest in their wine.
Venice will linger in your mindand wherever you go in life you will feel somewhere over your shoulder, a pink, castellated, shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinnacles of the Serenissima. There's romance for you! There's the lust and dark wine of Venice! No wonder George Eliot's husband fell into the Grand Canal.
Here is the ecstasy Of sun-fed wine and song: Drink! it is melody Under a kurrajong.
Oh, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise: How given for naught her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine.
Vulgoque veritas iam attributa vino est. And truth has come to be proverbially credited to wine.
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed 'only two dramatic featuresthe wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.'
Their beer was strong; their wine was port; Their meal was large; their grace was short. They gave the poor the remnant meat, Just when it grew not fit to eat.
Botticelli isn't a wine, you Juggins! Botticelli's a cheese!
L'odeur du vin, o" combien plus est friand, riant, priant, plus ce leste et de licieux que d'huile! The odour of wine, oh how much sweeter, more cheerful, pleasing, heavenlyand delicious it is than oil!
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. Theyall require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
A weary lot is thine, fair maid, A weary lot is thine! To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, And press the rue for wine!
Gin by pailfuls, wine in rivers, Dash the window-glass to shivers! For three wild lads were we, brave boys, And three wild lads were we; Thou on the land, and I on the sand, And Jack on the gallows-tree!
Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.
Bring hither the pink and purple columbine, With gillyflowers: Bring coronation, and sops in wine, Worn of paramours. Strew me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies.
Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the belly full, Pour out to all that will, And sprinkle all the posts and walls with wine, That they may sweat, and drunken be withal.
I beg you listen to this advice When you get wine, be sure to drink it.
He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.
Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
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