“Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.”

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”

“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”

“I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.”

“Son of the Devil, I turn wine into water”

“his lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine”

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

“If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.”

“Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life;
Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,
Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife,
And so turns wine to water back again.”

“The old man … received the Sabbath with sweet song and chanted the hallowing tunefully over raisin wine; while it was still day he hallowed and the sun came to gaze at his glass. … The table was well spread with all manner of fruit, beans, greenstuffs and good pies, plum water tasting like wine, but of flesh and of fish there was never a sign. … in truth it is in no way obligatory to eat flesh and fish … He and she, meaning the old man and the old woman, had never tasted flesh since growing to maturity.”