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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce
Christian, Food, Wine
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Ambrose Bierce
Wine, Definitions, Connoisseur

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce
Wine, Men, Next
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Ambrose Bierce
Food, Wine, Drunk
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

Ambrose Bierce
Food, Wine, Bottles
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Ambrose Bierce
Wine, Lips, Connoisseur
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.40, University of Georgia Press

BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

Ambrose Bierce
Block, Wine, Science
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

Ambrose Bierce
Running, Wine, Alcohol

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Ambrose Bierce
Wine, Yield, Mad
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

Ambrose Bierce
Wine, Sacrifice, Skulls
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

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