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• When the wine is in, the wit is out.
• It used to be wine, women & song. Now it's beer, the old lady & TV.
• Wine is wont to show the mind of man. -- Theognis (c. 545 BC) -- Maxims, Line 500
• When the wine goes in, the secrets come out.
• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old.
  It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena. -- Athenaeus (c....
• Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue. -- Samuel Goldwy
• Mary had a little lamb, some wine, and a dinner salad.
• When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 500...
• CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
  An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him....