Quote by Samuel Johnson
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit;

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson

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A vine bears three bunches of grapes. The first, the bunch of pleasure; the second, that of drunkenness; the third, that of disgust. – Anacharsis (early 6th century BCE), paraphrase by Diogenes Laërtius (3rd C. CE)

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A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside; “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, A Handbook of Gastronomy (Physiologie du goût), 1825,

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For not only is taste in wine as subjective as taste in women, but its enjoyment depends more on circumstances than does that of almost any other pleasure. – Cyril Ray (1908–1991), “The Wine when it is Red,” In a Glass Lightly, 1967

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