| 词汇 | wine women and song |
| 词源 | wine, women, and song. Despite Thackeray’s tongue-in- cheek attribution, this famous phrase, and the couplet of advice to men that it comes from wasn’t written by Martin Luther! German poet Johann Heinrich Voss wrote the little poem in about 1775: Who does not love wine, women and song Remains a fool his whole life long. And Byron wrote: Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter sermons and soda-water the day after. |
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