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Deutsch: "Wer nicht liebt Wein Weib und Gesang Bleibt Ein Narr sein Lebenlang"
English: "WHO DOES NOT LOVE WINE WIFE AND SONG WILL BE A FOOL FOR HIS LIFELONG!"

A more natural phrasing in 21st-century English would be: "He who does not love wine, wife, and song will be a fool his whole life long."

A print published by Kimmel and Voigt in New York, 1873.

In addition to its obvious meaning (and a reference to Strauss' "Wine Wife and Song Waltz"), this is also a vigorous assertion of the cultural values of German-American immigrants in the face of "Temperance" and "Maine Law" campaigners (i.e. alcohol prohibitionists), and other reformers who judged immigrants from a "native American" and/or English-speaking Protestant fundamentalist point of view.

For an opposing point of view (women who saw alcohol as a major aggravating factor in men's mistreatment of their families, and its prohibition as a highly-positive social reform), see Image:Womans-Holy-War.jpg.
Date 1873
date QS:P571,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer Edit of image downloaded from Library of Congress site. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005694426/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b07328/
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current17:25, 9 June 2006Thumbnail for version as of 17:25, 9 June 2006898 × 1,272 (308 KB)AnonMoos{{de|"Wer nicht liebt Wein Weib und Gesang Bleibt Ein Narr sein Lebenlang"}} {{en|"WHO DOES NOT LOVE WINE WIFE AND SONG WILL BE A FOOL FOR HIS LIFELONG!"}} A more natural phrasing in 21st-century English would be "He who does not love wine, wife, and son

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