Boire Quotes
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Lever matin n'est point bonheur; Boire matin est le
meilleur. Getting up in the
morning does not make you happy; Drinking in the
morning is the best.
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More Boire Quotes
Voyez-vous, mes enfants, quand le blé est mûr, il faut le couper; quand le vin est tiré, il faut le Boire.
alphonse daudet— You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.
— Lettres de mon moulin (1869; repr. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1882) p. 112; John P. Macgregor (trans.) Letters from My Mill (New York: Taplinger, 1967) p. 86.
Le vin est versé, il faut le Boire.
— The wine is poured, you should drink it.
— Attributed to M. de Charost. Spoken to Louis XIV, at the siege of Douai, as the king attempted to retire from the firing line.
Mon beau navire ô ma mémoire Avons-nous assez navigué Dans une onde mauvaise à Boire Avons-nous assez divagué De la belle aube au triste soir
guillaume apollinaire— O pretty ship, my memory
Isn't this far enough to sea,
And the sea not fit to drink?
Haven't we drifted far and lost
From fair dawn to dreary dusk?"La Chanson du Mal-Aimé" (Song of the Poorly Loved), line 51; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 95.
