In Praise of Wine (1959).
“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
somos todos mortales hasta el primer beso y el segundo vaso
The Book of Embraces (1991)
“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”
“Maybe the guy drank red wine or beer with breakfast instead of milk.”
After a Sheffield United fan threw a bottle at Frank Lampard
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/7004282.stm
Chelsea FC
“(Woman at typewriter) Dear Syl,... Is nothing forever? (Sylvia) Red wine on a white couch.”
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 111
Trilogy, pt.3
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
“If Bordeaux red wines were carbonated, McDonald's would be a lot more interested in selling them.”
Sources
Source: Xavier Leroy (2002-06-20), Post to the Caml mailing list, 2010-08-06 http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2002/06/4d57fe13abe8b7823d9c5ca9379d37ce.en.html,
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
Context: We must see that there is civic honesty, civic cleanliness, civic good sense in our home administration of city, State, and nation. We must strive for honesty in office, for honesty toward the creditors of the nation and of the individual; for the widest freedom of individual initiative where possible, and for the wisest control of individual initiative where it is hostile to the welfare of the many. But because we set our own household in order we are not thereby excused from playing our part in the great affairs of the world. A man's first duty is to his own home, but he is not thereby excused from doing his duty to the State; for if he fails in this second duty it is under the penalty of ceasing to be a freeman. In the same way, while a nation's first duty is within its own borders, it is not thereby absolved from facing its duties in the world as a whole; and if it refuses to do so, it merely forfeits its right to struggle for a place among the peoples that shape the destiny of mankind.
