Notable quoteables, waxing wine wisdom

Wine inevitably produces discussion, of varying degrees of quality, but sometimes it spawns profundity:

“Wine, bright avenger of sly-dealing wrong.” — Hilaire Belloc (left)

“Fill up the cup, but spill not the wine … for if you do so, it is an ill sign.” — Robert Herrick 

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” — Mark Twain

“Autumn arrives, array’d in splendid mien;
Vines, cluster’d full, add to the beauteous scene.”
— Farmer’s Almanac, 1818 

“Yet all the cool wines and flowery rooms, with as many fans and soft dews as June and July can imagine, are not worth a morsel of the bread and oil eaten around the fire in December and January as one gulps down a cup or two of new wine.” — Pietro Aretino (left)

“Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.” — William James