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I love collecting quotes about wine and drinking … some really delicious wit among these below. Got a favourite one of your own that I can add to this list? E-mail me at natdecants@nataliemaclean.com<\/a><\/strong>. You can find round two of quotes<\/strong><\/a> here, and round three here<\/a><\/strong> … not that I would know about these posts at this point in time since they will be done in the future, but whatever.<\/p>\n Cheers,<\/p>\n Natalie<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. I saw a sign that read “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started. You must believe in something. I believe I\u2019ll have another drink. I read about the evils of drinking, so I gave up reading. I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day. I drink to make other people interesting. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. I’ve taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. This is one of the disadvantages of wine; it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. I do not drink more than a sponge. I am a drinker with a writing problem. A hard drinker was offered grapes for dessert. “Thank you,” said he, pushing the dish away from him, “but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in pills.” Always do sober what you said you\u2019d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Great wine is about nuance, surprise, subtlety, expression, qualities that keep you coming back for another taste.\u00a0 Rejecting a wine a wine because it is not big enough is like rejecting a book because it is not long enough, or a piece of music because it is not loud enough. I drink it when I\u2019m happy and when I\u2019m sad.\u00a0 Sometimes I drink it when I\u2019m alone.\u00a0 When I have company I consider it obligatory.\u00a0 I trifle with it if I\u2019m not hungry and drink it when I am.\u00a0 Otherwise, I never touch it \u2013 unless I\u2019m thirsty. <\/p>\n SOBER is actually an acronym that stands for: Son Of a Bitch, Everything’s Real<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do. <\/p>\n Where once, per chance, my wit hath shone,<\/p>\n In aid of others let me shine,<\/p>\n And when, at last, my brain is gone,<\/p>\n What nobler substitute than wine?<\/p>\n – Lord Byron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love collecting quotes about wine and drinking … some really delicious wit among these below. Got a favourite one of your own that I can add to this list? E-mail me at natdecants@nataliemaclean.com. You can find round two of quotes here, and round three here … not that I would know about these posts at this point in time since they will be done in the future, but whatever. Cheers, Natalie I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. – Dorothy Parker I saw a sign that read “Drink Canada Dry” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Dorothy Parker<\/p>\n
\n– Brendan Behan<\/p>\n
\n– W.C. Fields<\/p>\n
\n– Henny Youngman<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/html\/uploads\/image\/rubber%20duck%20in%20glass%20small.jpg\")
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\n– Frank Sinatra<\/p>\n
\n– Geo Nathan, American drama critic<\/p>\n
\n– Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n
\n– Sir Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
\n– W.C. Fields<\/p>\n
\n– Samuel Johnson<\/p>\n
\n– Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais, French humorist<\/p>\n
\n– Brendan Behan<\/p>\n
\n– Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste<\/p>\n
\n– Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n
\n– Kermit Lynch<\/p>\n
\n– Lily Bollinger<\/p>\n
\n– Dylan Thomas<\/p>\n