Quotes About Cask

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

With his mouth open, he gave off that alcoholic smell that you get from an old brandy cask when you take out the bung.

This beer is the best I have ever tasted. Where do we get it? I must have a cask to hold my high revels." "It's not in casks, sir, it's bottled, from the Fleece down in the village. Light Lager." "We must always have this beer. I know beer. Few men know it as I do and this is BEER." "It's what we always have, sir." "It may be, it may be," said Mr Middleton rather crossly. "No thanks, no more. It is not so good now as it was before.

It tasted of the oak cask and sweet annihilation.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing.