Adel Adel Abbas

“كانِتْ ملاذ الغريب ورغيف للجَايْعِين
جُوَّه وبرَّه العَدُو دَاقِقْ أسافِينُه
فَقَرُوهَا وِلْد الغَبِيَّة وطَمَّعُوا الطامْعِين
!!والِعجْل لَمَّا يُقَع تِكْتَر سَكَاكِينُه”
― عبد الرحمن الأبنودي

“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases. The inventor of wine is called Liber, not from the license which he gives to our tongues but because he liberates the mind from the bondage of cares and emancipates it, animates it and renders it more daring in all that it attempts.”
― Seneca

“I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to, kissed slowly with.”
― Brandon Villasenor, I Can't Stop Drinking About You

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman