My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life." - Meaning and context.">
At a King's College college feast, as quoted in 1949, John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, Fellow and Bursar, (A memoir prepared by direction of the Council of King’s College, Cambridge University, England), Cambridge University Press, 1949, page 37. This in turn quoted in Quote Investigator, "My Only Regret Is That I Have Not Drunk More Champagne In My Life", 2013-07-11

My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.

— John Maynard Keynes

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life." in the context of "At a King's College college feast, as quoted in 1949, John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, Fellow and Bursar, (A memoir prepared by direction of the Council of King’s College, Cambridge University, England), Cambridge University Press, 1949, page 37. This in turn quoted in Quote Investigator, "My Only Regret Is That I Have Not Drunk More Champagne In My Life", 2013-07-11" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Maynard Keynes

About John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.