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Old wine, and old friend, and old gold are beloved in all places.
[Vin vieux, amy vieux, Y or vieux sont amez en touts lieux.]
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in French” (1659) [compiler]
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Howell also gives a
Spanish version (in the same source, "Proverbs in Spanish"):
Old wine, and an old friend.
[Vino anejo, y amigo viejo.]
See
Alfonso X,
Bacon (1624),
Herbert (1640).
Added on 22-Jul-26 | Last updated 22-Jul-26
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Topics: age, books, comfort, custom, enjoyment, familiarity, friend, maturity, money, needs, passage of time, provisions, supplies, tradition, wine
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George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 136 (1640 ed.)
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Topics: age, comfort, custom, familiarity, friend, friendship, maturity, needs, passage of time, provisions, supplies, tradition, wine
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