The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
— Jim Harrison
Most Powerful Bottle Wine quotations
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

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

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup.
All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.

They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type.
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner.
Tactics is getting her to drink it.

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.
I know never to take a wine for granted.
Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'
You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.

I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity.
I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.

During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig.
My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.
I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.
Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
A bottle of wine was good company.
I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.
Where there is no wine there is no love.
We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.
The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.
The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.