
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
As quoted in The Man from Monticello : An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson (1969) by Thomas J. Fleming, p. 250
Posthumous publications
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
“Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
“I rather like bad wine," said Mr. Mountchesney; "one gets so bored with good wine.”
Book 1, chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845)
“Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing.”
tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Wasps+80
Wasps, line 80
Wasps (422 BC)