You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind wine and women which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine a wife is a wine bottle.
You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler and said that it was sixteen years old. It is very small for its age said Gnathæna.
I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind wine and women which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by let us call thee devil!