I will get me a bottle of Boston sea And a blue-gum nigger to sing me blues. I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

-Bene¤  t, StephenVincent
  'American Names'.

Theyare the last drops of vintage wine from a musty old bottle.

-Boyle, Peter G(erard)
Of  Winston Churchill's letters to President Eisenhower. Quoted in Peter G Boyle (ed)  The Churchill^Eisenhower Correspondence 1953^1955 (1990).

Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love, and a little for the bottle.

-Diaz, Porfirio
  'Captain Wattle and Miss Roe'.

'Mrs Harris,' I says,'leave the bottle on the chimley- piece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Mrs Gamp. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.19.

I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Flora Finching. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.24.

Poetry in a bottle.

-Fadiman, Clifton
  Of wine. In Manhattan Inc,  Jul.

To try to talk to the young people who will run the futureöin ten minutesöis a little like trying to put a cantaloupe in a coke bottle.

-Jones,John Paul
   At Claremont College commencement. Reported in the NewYork Times, 29 May.

Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.

-Lowndes,William
  Under the Volcano, ch.3.

Those two scorpions in a bottle.

-Oppenheimer,J(ulius) Robert
On the US and USSR in the early1950s. Quoted in  Anthony Cave Brown Treason in the Blood (1994).

Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage, And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

-Raleigh, Sir Walter
  The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  An InlandVoyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'AesTriplex'.

Was ist dein Ziel in der Philosophie?ö'Der Fliege den Ausweg aus dem Fliegenglas zeigen'. What is your aim in philosophy?öTo show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

-Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann
  Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations), section 309 (translated by G E M Anscombe).