Friendship is the wine of life.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

A bottle of wine was good company.

The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.

Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,
To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend
Wine, true begetter of all arts that be;
Wine, privilege of the completely free;
Wine the recorder; wine the sagely strong;
Wine, bright avenger of sly-dealing wrong,
Awake, Ausonian Muse, and sing the vineyard song!

If there is a verity in wine, according to the old adage, what an amiable-natured character Dick's must have been! In proportion as he took in wine he overflowed with kindness.

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.

Wine whets the wit, improves its native force…

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

Laughter for the soul, and wine for the body.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

"Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad."