Wine Quotes

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The older I get, the better I used to be.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

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 cognac, or any other reason

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

Never give a sucker an even break.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner.

Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.

Excellent wine generates enthusiasm. And whatever you do with enthusiasm is generally successful.