To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

Reading to small children is a specialty.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.