 Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach Who please, — the more because they preach in vain, — Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.  Adventures of a Younger Son - Page 163by Edward John Trelawny - 1890 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.' 780 Don Juan Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. 781 Don Juan Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...so.' 1969 Don Juan 'T15 strange - but true; for truth is always Stranger than fiction. 1970 Don Juan irginibus Puerisque 'An Apology for Idlers' There is no duty we so much underrate as 1971 Donjuan Society is now one polished horde. Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please — the more because they preach in vain — I. Quoted from an anonymous narrator who is the 'Mr. S ' of Charles Mackay's MeJora Ltigb: see... | |
 | Patrick Meanor - Fiction - 2004 - 136 pages
...who drank heavily and suffered accordingly: Feic things surpass old unne; and they may preach Wlio please — the more because they preach in vain —...have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter, Sermons and Soda water — the day after . . . Man, being reasonable, must get dnmk; The best of life is but Intoxication... | |
 | Kate Fiduccia - Cooking - 2004 - 232 pages
...TO THE GROUND Who loves not woman, wine and song. Remains a fool his whole life long. MARTIN LUTHER Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. LORD BYRON, DON JUAN Men who have communion in nothing else can sympathetically eat together, can still... | |
 | Marion Kaplinsky - Humor - 2005 - 390 pages
...Walking on eggshells A diplomat is a person who thinks twice before saying nothing. 761 Morning after "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after." LORD BYRON (1788-1824) 762 Revealing ourselves We never disclose our character so clearly as when we... | |
 | Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. — Charles Kingsley Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. — Lord Byron 383 If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1820 - 566 pages
...and Blair, "the highest teachers of eloquence in piety and prose," yet he presently asserts, that. " few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach,...; let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter." О yes! "\Vhatmencall gallantry , and gods adultery," ie " Inconstancy — is nothing more than admiration... | |
 | 1820 - 618 pages
...''the highest teachers of eloquence in piety and prose," yet he presently asserts, that, " few tilings surpass old wine : and they may preach, who please...; let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter." O yes ! " What men call gallantry, and gods adultery," >'. e. " Inconstancy — is nothing mofe than... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 288 pages
...Byron's actual life is an essential gloss upon his poetic professions, and was more truly expressed in Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. . . . If any lingering... | |
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