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  • "... good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people." -- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.
  • "Wine is bottled poetry." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." -- Thomas Aquinas.
  • Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
  • "Good wine is a necessity of life for me." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "I have often wondered what the vintners buy, one half so precious as the goods they sell" -- Omar Khayyam
  • "Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what you do." -- Ecclesiastes 9:7
  • "Once... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days." -- W. C. Fields, My Little Chickadee.