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

“I was dead then alive,
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine;
You can pour us out, we won't mind,
As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine."”

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”

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

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

“I do repent of wine and talk of wine,
Of idols fair with charms like silver fine:
A lip-repentance and a lustful heart—
O God, forgive this penitence of mine!”

“Everybody is as unstable as water.”

“Appearance and reality […] are not separated like oil and water in a vessel, but rather amalgamated like water and wine. To separate them, we must analyse them in the most 'classic' sense of the word: the elements of the mixture must be isolated.”

“He performed great miracles, like turning water into wine, thus making people to become spiritually drunken.”

“his lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine”