Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long. – German Proverb
A great war leaves the country with three armies — an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. – German Proverb

Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long. – German Proverb
A great war leaves the country with three armies — an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. – German Proverb
Life is a chaplet of little miseries, which the philosopher unstrings with a smile. Be philosophers as I am, gentlemen; sit down to the table and let us drink; nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin. – Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844), “Chapter XLVII: A Family Affair,”
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local caf? to the speech at a formal dinner. – Roland Barthes