In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
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Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet
Jay Kordich
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
Pindar
In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary
Ernest Hemingway
Taws Noah who first planted the vine and mended his morals by drinking its wine.
Benjamin Franklin
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You do not want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste
Ernest Hemingway
The custom of saluting i.e., embracing ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.
Joseph Haydn
My dear girl, there are some things that just are not done, such as drinking Dom Perignon 53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That is just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.
Bond
Up to the age of forty eating is beneficial. After forty, drinking.
The Talmud