Monday, March 1, 2010

Lost in Tweet translation

Been following...

01. Following Constellation Brands. D@P

Trans: "I am drinking the stars!" Dom Perignon

02. Ugh, going home to bathe, drink, and sleep. S@TA

Trans: "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine." St. Thomas Aquinas

03. I spoke 2 soon. S@J

Trans: "One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts." Samuel Johnson

04. Wine taxes pay off national debt. T@J

Trans: "By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt." Thomas Jefferson

05. Join the party 2nite. J@HV

Trans: "He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long " Johann Heinrich Voss

06. Champers 2 win or 2 lose. @N

Trans: "I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink champagne when I lose to console myself." Napoleon

07. Wine theft at doctor’s office. R@P

Trans: "Drink a glass of wine after your soup and you steal a ruble from your doctor." Russian proverb

08. Wine 4 dinner; then, pleasing myself. @P

Trans: "When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself." Plato

09. Mixologist told me sun+water=wine. G@G

Trans: "Wine is sunlight, held together by water!" Galileo Gallilei

10. No wine=no 2 nite, baby. @E

Trans: "Where there is no wine there is no love." Euripides

11. No wine; need drugs. @Tal

Trans: "Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary." The Talmud

12. Bread & wine & u 4 me. O@K

Trans: “A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.” Omar Khayyam


Wine quotes

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Copyright Thomas Pellechia
March 2010. All rights reserved.








3 comments:

  1. Thomas,

    #12 was on the front of my wedding reception invitations. One of my personal favorites.

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  2. Sam,

    I hope you didn't use the Tweet version.

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  3. Nice. I might have to filch a few of these.

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