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“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
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“Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.”
Source : Abraham Coles (1882). “The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse”
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“Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.”
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“A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.”
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“Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.”
Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1960). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving”
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“Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.”
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“People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.”
Source : "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011. 
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“We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.”
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“A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking”
Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.55, Random House
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“Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.”
Source : Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand
