We are next to the holiday season, failing to walk across the vineyards, I confess to my defending and tanned body that I enjoy beach.
Here, there aren’t properties surrounded by grapevines standing on gravelly soils, but sand castles surrounded by entangled bodies languishing on pareos… So I find myself enjoying, with gusto, some quotes about wine . And just as we share a bottle with friends, I can not resist the urge to share with you a small selection. The oldest and somewhat didactic, such as the one of Pasteur : “A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” To the most recent and a bit caustic, such as Jean Carmet: ” The only weapon that I tolerate is the corkscrew!” We know it less, but the wine inspired many authors, most famous in other literary way; Alexandre Dumas wrote : “Wine is the intellectual part of a meal. Meat and vegetables are just the hardware “while Courteline stated that” the wine slowly kills. Who cares. We’re in no hurry.“
There are many quotes that are attributed to different authors, without knowing who in fine wrote these kind words, among my favorites: “There are more old drunkards than old doctors”, ” ‘I’ll drink milk when cows eat grapes“or” Wine is the milk of the elderly.”
And how to ignore these Coluche beads, which has so often used in his sketches, the more general theme of alcohol: “Men are born equal, and then … they start drinking” or “An alcoholic is someone you do not like and drink as much as you “and a little more gritty and macho” God created alcohol to make ugly women fuck”
Finer, I appreciate the words of Pierre Dac: « J’aime le vin d’ici mais pas l’eau de là ». There is in french a word game.
To finish this short humorous litany, honour to what could be my epitaph:
« Si tu choisis l’incinération, sache que ce sera ta dernière cuite, tandis qu’enterré, tu auras toujours une chance d’avoir un petit ver dans le nez. » there’s a word game and in english it means :
“If you choose cremation, know that this will be your last drunk while buried you will always have a chance to have a little worm in the nose.”
Arsène Bacchus