 | Catherine Coulter - 1998 - 420 pages
...nineteen years. Doris, who had baked her wedding cake, was dabbing her eyes with the corner of her apron. Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; But he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. —SAMUEL JOHNSON Hawk raised his silver flask of brandy and drank deep. Instant... | |
 | Jon Beckmann - 1999 - 134 pages
...absolutely must try So sink into your club chair, lift your glass, and heed the words of Samuel Johnson: "(Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. " •. 'rh±s One HNC3-XXE-AP24 rm1 Choosing, Serving, JON BECK MANN CHRONICLE BOOKS... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2010 - 438 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds's. . . . Johnson harangued upon the qualities of different liquors; . . . [he] said, 'Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for...aspires to be a hero (smiling,) must drink brandy'" (Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791; rpt. London: Oxford University Press, 1970], 1016). AB attributes... | |
 | Rodney Dale - 2000 - 212 pages
...Nelson was sent back in brandy, as befitted a national hero presumably according to Johnson's dictum: 'claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy'. Henry VI died of dysentery on an inconveniently hot August afternoon. The only... | |
 | Suzanne Von Drachenfels - 2000 - 598 pages
...Today, both Jacobite and amen glasses can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Claret ui the liquor for boys; Port for men; But he who aspires to be a hero drink brandy. JAMES B osw ELL , LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1791 The brandy snifter, also known as a branth/... | |
 | Kasey Michaels - 2002 - 334 pages
...Bernice Toland-James, that becoming pot-valiant would aid nothing. Still, as Samuel Johnson had said, "Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." "Sterling? A brandy, if you please," he said as his friend was pouring himself... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 2003 - 552 pages
...Joyce Rebeta-Burditt • Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. — Thomas Fuller Drink 181 • Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. — Samuel Johnson • I don't drink any more — just the same amount. — Joe... | |
 | D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - 2003 - 554 pages
...uiesflff, 888. When wine is in, wit is out. $ijiTL.smff iDgtf 2.«fr(S«ir Qseirir^iui, Liffi 889. Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Samuel Johnson iL" eresrp ugi srouuj«Br<S(S75<s(gj; "GuirirL." STSiT/O uigi 890.... | |
 | Michael Dirda - 2005 - 566 pages
...spent all the money. . . . Politics are now nothing more than a means of rising in the world. . . . Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." Who would wish to stop? When a man is tired of Boswell's Life of Johnson, he is... | |
 | D.V. Rangarajan - 2004 - 172 pages
...People do not lack strength; they lack will -Victor Hugo. Wine 1 . When wine is in, wit is out. 2. Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Samuel Johnson. 3. There is a devil in every berry of the grape - The Koran. 4.... | |
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Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy. 
