Wine/consumption

Famous quotes containing the words wine and/or consumption:

“Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken’s wing.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)