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When the wine is in, the wit is out.
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When the wine goes in, the secrets come out.
Watch out when the auctioneer calls some nineteenth-century wine "a graceful old lady whose wrinkles are starting to show through layers of makeup.
That means the wine is undrinkable, and some fool will spend $500 for it. -- Robert Parke...
Hey, we're out of wine, women, and so$#*&^%NO MERRIER
A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act iii, Sc. 5...
WIT: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery... by leaving it out.
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. -- Thomas Jefferso
We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry
Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine....
Out-did the meat, out-did the frolick wine. -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- Ode for Ben Jonso
WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...