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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 30, 2025
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.
I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.
Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.
Life is all about balance: sprinting hard and fast, breathing deep and slow. Working out with my coaches, playing with my kids. Eating whole foods for fuel, enjoying a glass of wine with friends.
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
The older I get, the better I was.
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.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
I think if you look after yourself on a regular basis, and do the prep beforehand, you don't need to put lots of effort into looking good. It's about finding the right balance - if you have a good diet, drink lots of water, exercise regularly and sleep, you won't look bad on a regular basis. Then you can afford the occasional naughty slip up once in a while, going out and having a delicious glass of wine with friends, having a great laugh and chat then realizing its 2am isn't so bad - you've put in the hard work!
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.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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.
The older I get, the better I used to be.
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.
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