Wine Quotes

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

Poetry is devil's wine.

Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.

[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!

I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

The oil and wine of merry meeting.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

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.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

I am falser than vows made in wine.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there's always red wine.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.