Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Source: The Beach (1941), Chapter 2, p. 13
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1944), Prologue
“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
Henri Murger (1822–1861) novelist and poet from France
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 22
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Matt, Act II, sc. i, air 19
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
“To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) French writer
La Tontine (1709)
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Variant: He who loves not Wine, Women and Song
Remains a fool his whole life long
“Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both,
you don't belong with us.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Source: The Essential Rumi (1995), Ch. 19 : Jesus Poems
Context: The cure for pain is in the pain.
Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both,
you don't belong with us.