Smile

Well, the wind is real, but you can’t see the wind. You know, you can only see the leaves rustling in the trees. Pain is real but you can’t see pain. You can only see tears. Happiness is real, but you can’t see happiness. You can only see the smile on someone’s face.

Modern Babel

Computers are modern Babel. The higher technology reaches, the greater the confusion of tongues.

(Patricia Cornwell)

WINE

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I drink when I have occasion
and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Miguel de Cervantes

WINE

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Drink today and drown all sorrow,
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
Best while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.

Beaumont and Fletcher

WINE

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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda water the day after.

Lord Byron

WINE

Keep your head cool and your feet warm,
And a glass of good whiskey will do you no harm.

Sir Walter Scott

WINE

...the wine which Dionysius has given men to lighten the sourness of old age; that in age we may renew our youth, and forget our sorrows; and also in order that the nature of the soul, like iron melted in the fire, may become softer and so more impressible.

Plato, Law, II 666BC

WINE

For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

Euripides, The Bacchae, 280-3