„I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.“

„I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.“

—  Joanne Harris British author 1964

„I was once the wine, and you the wineglass.
I was once alive, when you held me.
God became the glass:
All things left were emptiness.“

—  Aaron Weiss

Nice and Blue.
A→B Life (2002)

„Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.“

—  Jack Kornfield American writer 1945

„Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?“

—  John Gay English poet and playwright 1685 - 1732

Matt, Act II, sc. i, air 19
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

„Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.“

—  Joanne Harris, livro Chocolat

Fonte: Chocolat

„A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.“

—  Ernest Hemingway, livro A Farewell to Arms

Fonte: A Farewell to Arms

„Once wine was the means to artificial happiness; now things are much more sophisticated, and what was one of the great secrets of medicine has become the only bliss many find in this life.“

—  Nick Drake (poet) British writer 1961

Ch 10
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun

„As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.“

—  Ernest Hemingway, livro A Moveable Feast

Fonte: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 1

„5744. Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variante: Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.
Contexto: 830. Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.

„I always thought when I got older that I'd be jealous of my children but I'm not. It's the opposite. I love seeing their possibilities. Nothing makes me as happy as sitting at dinner with loved ones, having a glass of wine with a meal that I've cooked. What could be better?“

—  John Banville Irish writer 1945

„Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.“

—  Oscar Wilde, livro The Nightingale and the Rose

Fonte: The Nightingale and the Rose

„There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.“

—  Alfred Hitchcock British filmmaker 1899 - 1980

„Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.“

—  W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

„As the plane climbed over the town and swung above the sea I knew how it felt to go into exile.“

—  Wilfred Thesiger, livro Arabian Sands

Fonte: Arabian Sands (1959), p. 310.

„Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine“

—  Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274

„She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.“

—  Haruki Murakami, livro 1Q84

Fonte: 1Q84

„Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.“

—  Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004

Fonte: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

„People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.“

—  Paulo Coelho, livro The Winner Stands Alone

Fonte: The Winner Stands Alone

„We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.“

—  Eduardo Galeano, livro The Book of Embraces

somos todos mortales hasta el primer beso y el segundo vaso
The Book of Embraces (1991)