Paris Cafe's

Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

-Turkish Proverb

In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

-ERNEST HEMMINGWAY, expatriate and writer

Wine is bottled poetry.

-ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, writer

Eat with the fingers, drink with the nose.

-JOSEPH DELTEIL, writer

Wine makes a symphony of a good meal.

-FERNANDE GARVIN, chef and writer

Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies come to life and fade away. What care I how time advances; I am drinking ale today.

-EDGAR ALLAN POE, writer

Without question the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

-DAVE BARRY, comedian and writer