A drunkard's purse is a bottle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To seek a needle in a bottle of hay. [ Proverb ]

A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay,
Is all one at Doomsday. [ Proverb ]

With an if one might put Paris in a bottle. [ French Proverb ]

The love of a woman, and a bottle of wine,
Are sweet for a season, but last a short time. [ Proverb ]

The wine in the bottle doth not quench thirst. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is hard to make a good web of a bottle of hay. [ Proverb ]

Give a poor man sixpence, and not a bottle of wine. [ Proverb ]

Learning in an ill man, is good wine in a musty bottle. [ Proverb ]

The tears of a whore, and the oaths of a bully, may be put in the same bottle. [ Proverb ]

Do not weep, my dear lady! Your tears are too precious to shed for me; bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. [ Sterne ]

Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirit of The Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram, without the evil effects of either. [ Layard ]

I met a brother who, describing a friend of his, said he was like a man who had dropped a bottle and broken it and put all the pieces in his bosom where they were cutting him perpetually. [ H. W. Beecher ]