THOUGHTS ON WINE:
“Writing in my sixty-fourth year...
since I reached the age of discretion I have consistently drunk more than most people would say is good for me. Nor did I regret it. Wine has been for me a firm friend and a wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things but not to do them."
"Old Men Forget"
"Wine is poetry in a bottle" -Clifton Fadiman
"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."
"A hard drinker, being at table, was offered grapes at dessert. 'Thank you,' said he, pushing the dish away from him, 'but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in pills."
The Physiology of Taste
"The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations."
French Proverb
"youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine."