Wine Quotes

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

Sherry, the civilized drink.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.

I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!

My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

I hate to see a beautiful woman drink bad wine

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.