## Metadata - Author: [[Benjamin Errett]] - Full Title:: The Wit’s Guide to Wine - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://wit.substack.com/p/the-wits-guide-to-wine - Read date:: [[2026-11-07]] ## Highlights From Claude. The following joke rewrites an old saying: "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people." That saying is often credited to Eleanor Roosevelt, but the attribution is shaky. > ***“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” > — Fran Lebowitz ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m6tfmfg4ee8vhy97sa9x6750)) ^fdebb5 > The linguist Adrienne Lehrer is the foremost expert on this question, having written the book [Wine and Conversation.](https://archive.org/details/wineconversation0000lehr_z9r4/page/282/mode/2up) To quote the description: “What do these words mean? Can they actually reflect the objective characteristics of wine, and can two drinkers really use and understand these words in the same way? … Her conclusion, based on experimental results, is no.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m6tfvngty3f46eh8eex569qq))