Ecclesiastes 10:1 9 - A Feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 - Eat thy bread with joy, and drink they wine with a merry heart.
Psalms 104:15 - Wine maketh glad the heart of man.
Judges 9:13 - Wine, which cheereth God and man.
Are you getting a biblical trend here?
Continuing from ago and abroad:
Seneca the Elder - Bibamus, moriendum est. (Let's drink, death is inevitable.)
Diogenes - What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
French Proverb - There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
Scottish Proverb - They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
Euripedes - When there is no wine there is no love.
