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Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. (Quote by - Julius Caesar)

Drinking of wine maketh men to act like so many furies. (Quote by - Nathaniel Morton)

O Roman punch! O potent Curacoa! O Maraschino! Maraschino O! Delicious drams! Why have you not the art To kill this gnawing Book-worm in my heart? (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie. (Quote by - W.A. Bellamy)

Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. (Quote by - Richard Lovelace)

No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbell Chapin)

Although it is better to hide our ignorance, this is hard to do when we relax over wine. (Quote by - Heraclitus of Ephesus)

I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself. (Quote by - Robert Allott)

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man. (Quote by - Bible)

There is a devil in every berry of the grape. (Quote by - Koran)

But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine, Which is the mermaid's now, but shall be mine. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)

Wine and youth are fire upon fire. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)

The use of wine must inevitably be a stepping-stone to that of stronger drinks and to intemperance. (Quote by - John Calvin Holbrook)

Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness. (Quote by - Rachel Russell)

That is a treacherous friend whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

And must I wholly banish hence These red and golden juices, And pay my vows to Abstinence, That pallidest of Muses? (Quote by - Sir William Watson (2))

The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. (Quote by - George Herbert)

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. (Quote by - George Herbert)

Wine often turns the good-natured man into an idiot and the choleric into an assassin. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take the righteousness of the righteous from him! (Quote by - Bible)

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. (Quote by - Bible)

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

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