“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.” — Edmund Burke
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- Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times
- If smirking wine be wanted here There’s that which drowns all cares, stout beer
- If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. — Ann Landers
- If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
- Called ale among men; but by the gods called beer
- We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
- Bad times, hard times – this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”
- We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
- May friendship, like wine, improve as time advances.
- “Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”