Thomas Becon quotes

“When the wine is in, the wit is out.”
-- Thomas Becon

Source : 'Catechism' (ed. J. Ayre, 1844) p. 375

#Drinking Quotes #Wine Quotes #Wit Quotes

“To justify God's ways to man.”

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.”

“Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”

“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

“Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!”

“It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.18, Duke University Press

“[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.”

“I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.”

“He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.”