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What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?
Sep 29, 2025
I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
I am falser than vows made in wine.
A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.
The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.
Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
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.
Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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