Here’s to our ancestors!
Without them, where would we be?
Flagon and Trencher Traditional Toast
To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure;
To the fair, their face,
With eternal grace,
And the rest, to be loved at leisure.
— Ben Jonson
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
Here’s sham pain (champagne) for our real friends
and real pain for our sham friends.
— A bad pun
To the militia: Invincible in peace; invisible in war.
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
— Shakespeare
Drink down all unkindness.
— Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1
Better to pay the tavern keeper than the druggist.
— Spanish proverb
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards.
There it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine,
a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
— Benjamin Franklin
Wine is sunlight held together by water.
— Galileo Gallilei
Flagon and Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavernkeepers 