Psalms 75:8 - For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
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Napoleon Bonaparte - Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory, but so are those of the ballet or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
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Kevin Zraly - In victory, you deserve champagne; in defeat, you need it.
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Leonard S. Bernstein - Presenting the cork is wine nonsense, a ritual invented by captains and sommeliers. The wine snob doesn’t resent ritual. There is infinite ritual in the etiquette of serving wine. But most of it at least hints at style or purpose. Placing an unsightly cork on the tablecloth hints at absurdity.
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Luke 5:39 - No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
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Leon Adams - Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.
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Franklin P. Adams - In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.
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Baba Bathra - Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary.
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Wolfgang von Goethe - Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
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James Bond - There are some things that are just not done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ‘53 above the temperature of 38° Fahrenheit.
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Charles Baudelaire - Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night.
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André Simon - Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
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William Shakespeare - The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
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Robert Louis Stevenson - A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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Clifton Fadiman - If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
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Alexis Lichine - When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.
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Fadiman - A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
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Alexander Pope - And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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Horace - Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.
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Ernest Hemingway - Wine … offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
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Lord Byron - Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.
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Napoleon Bonaparte - Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory – but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
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Thomas Jefferson - No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.
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Napoleon Bonaparte - Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.
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Pope John XXIII - Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
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Benjamin Franklin - Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
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Michael Broadbent - Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
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Martin Luther - Beer is made by men, wine by God.
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Sir Robert Scott Caywood - Compromises are for relationships, not wine.
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Anonymous - Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.
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Alexander Fleming - Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
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Homer - Wine can of their wits the wise beguile;
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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Dean Martin - You haven't drunk too much wine if you can still lie on the floor without holding on.
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Anonymous - Reality is an illusion that occurs due to a lack of wine.
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Robert Mondavi - Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It's culture. It's the essence of civilization and the art of living.
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Franklin P. Adams - In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.
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Wolfgang von Goethe - Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
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André Simon - Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
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Horace - Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.
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Ernest Hemingway - Wine … offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
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Lord Byron - Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.
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Thomas Jefferson - No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.
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Napoleon Bonaparte - Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.
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Michael Broadbent - Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
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Steven Wright - I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age.
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The Devil's Dictionary - CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died.
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Robert Fripp - Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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Clifton Fadiman - A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
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Anonymous - Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.
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W.C. Fields - What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?
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Benjamin Franklin - Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance."
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Homer Simpson - Alcohol - the cause of and solution to all of life's problems
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Alcaeus - Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
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Thomas Moore - What though youth gave love and roses age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Martin Luther - He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
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Anon French Proverb - Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.
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Spanish saying - Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach
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Robert Louis Stevenson - Wine is bottled poetry.
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Pliny the Elder - In vino veritas
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Medieval German saying - Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.
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Latin saying - It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one's present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason.
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Wycherly - Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away.
Wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars
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The Koran - There is a devil in every berry of the grape.
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English Proverb - Wine and wenches empty men's purses
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John Stuart Blackie - Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babies, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
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Cardinal Richeleu - If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
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Ernest Hemingway - Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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Samuel Johnson - Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
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W.E.P. French - Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly.
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Johnny Depp - Wino Forever (The tattoo once read 'Winona Forever'!)
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Johnny Mercer - Days of wine and roses laugh and run away,
Like a child at play.
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W.B.Yeats - His element is so fine
Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
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Stephen Phillips - A man not old, but mellow, like good wine,
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William Shakespeare - Good wine needs no bush.
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Publius Syrius - You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
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William Shakespeare - Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
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Thomas Becon - For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
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Ben Jonson - Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
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