A Bit More Wine.

What else after a weekend of wine tastings?

" Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. "
Basil Bunting

" They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and be beautiful. "
E.M.Forster, Where Angels Fear To Tread

" The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. "
James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

" What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,
For good things, oft, are not so near;
A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,
Yet drinks their wine with hearty cheer. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

" A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness and the third of repentance. "
Diogenes Laertius, The Complete Works

" Wine is the nurse of old age. "
Galen

" Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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