“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”
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George Gordon Byron 227
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824Related quotes

“O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.”
Stanza 80.
Beppo (1818)
“Laughter for the soul, and wine for the body.”
Le rire pour l'âme et le vin pour le corps.
Le Moyen de Parvenir (1617).
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Four Riddles, no. III
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

"Address to certain Gold-fishes"
Poems (1851)

Matt, Act II, sc. i, air 19
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

Letter http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/literature/american/1700-1799/franklin-paris-247.txt to Abbé Morellet (1779).
Epistles
Context: We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. The miracle in question was only performed to hasten the operation, under circumstances of present necessity, which required it.

"In the quiet of the morning I heard a knock at my door"
Translated by Arthur Waley

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
His description of wine, as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 5
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Variant: Light held together by moisture.