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Wine Sayings

If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink:
Good wine, a friend, or being dry,
Or lest we should be by and by,
Or any other reason why.

• Henry Aldrich, Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse

A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

• Aristophanes c. 450 – 385 B.C., Knights [424 B.C.], l. 92.

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine.

 

As a rule, A toast is a ritual in which a drink is taken as an expression of honor or goodwill.  Subsequently, the term may be applied to the person or thing so honored, the drink is taken.  Above all, the verbal expression accompanying the drink. Thus, a person could be “the toast of the evening”, for whom someone “proposes a toast” to congratulate. For the most part,  a third person “toasts” in agreement.  As a result, the ritual forms the basis of the literary and performance genre. Consequently, of which Mark Twain’s “To the Babies” is a well-known example.

By the way, the toast as described here is rooted in Western culture. Most noteworthy, as certain cultures outside that sphere, have their own traditions. In addition, consuming a drink is connected with ideas of celebration and honor. However, the physical and verbal ritual of the toast may be elaborate and formal, merely raising one’s glass towards someone. In this case, or something and then drinking is essentially a toast as well, the message being one of goodwill towards the person or thing indicated.

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