“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”
― Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”
― Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.”
― The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.”
― The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”
― The Fry Chronicles
― The Fry Chronicles
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