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Don't mix wine and women.
Sep 29, 2025
Wine and women bring misery.
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us. [Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.]
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.
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.
He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.
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