“Maybe the guy drank red wine or beer with breakfast instead of milk.”

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”

Gary Snyder (1930) American poet

“To paraphrase Thoreau, it was not sherry I drank nor I who drank sherry; it was the wine of the Hesperides and I was served it by the wind from the west.”

Mary Lee Settle (1918–2005) Novelist, biographer, academic

“She laughed, and drank more beer. “Take a long trace off a short bridge, vampire.”

Kresley Cole American writer

“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

“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

“The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.”

Alec Waugh (1898–1981) British novelist

“One sweet whisper from her came;
And he drank to catch her breath, —
Wine and sigh alike are death!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“Red, red wine
Go to my head.
Make me forget that I
Still need her so.Red, red wine,
It's up to you.
All I can do, I've done.
But memories won't go.
No, memories won't go.”

Neil Diamond (1941) American singer-songwriter