
“Son of the Devil, I turn wine into water”
Alcoholic Author
The Return of the Drifter EP (2002)
“Son of the Devil, I turn wine into water”
Alcoholic Author
The Return of the Drifter EP (2002)
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
Source: Notebook
“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”
Steps to the Temple, To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 516.
“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
The Cenci (1819), Act I, sc. iii, l. 88
“A view of the unseemly actions of drunken men is the most effectual dissuasive from wine.”
As quoted in Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Chapter "Life of Anacharsis", 1702 edition, John Nicholson, p. 55