WINE, n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women’s Christian Union as “liquor,” sometimes as “rum.” Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce

GRAPE, n. Hail noble fruit! — by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam; Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am. The lyre in my hand has never swept, The song I cannot offer: My humbler service pray accept — I’ll help to kill the scoffer. The water-drinkers and the cranks Who load their skins with liquor — I’ll gladly bear their belly-tanks And tap them with my sticker. Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When e’er we let the wine rest. Here’s death to Prohibition’s fools, And every kind of vine-pest!

Ambrose Bierce

CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Ambrose Bierce

Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce ( 1842 -1914) An American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist.

No one that has drunk old wine wants new; for he says, “The old is nice”.

Bible

Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babblings? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

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Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

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Where there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

In wine one beholds the heart of another.

And drink thy wine with a merry heart for God has accepted thy works.