“"If wine is fine, everything is fine, and if it's bad, never mind, as long as it is wine."”
Julián Hernández (1960)
"Si el vino está bien, todo está bien, y si está mal, da lo mismo, con tal de que sea vino..."
taken by Rock de Lux magazine.
“Wine is wont to show the mind of man.”
Source: Elegies, Line 500.
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Theognis of Megara16
Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century … -570–-485 BCRelated quotes
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