Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth. — Charles Edward Montague
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. — William Shakespeare
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. — Robert Mondavi
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen. — Moliere
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Fadiman
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Paul Fadiman
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. — Abigail Van Buren
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. — Horace
Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin! — Julia Child
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets — Salvador Dali
Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty. — Madame de Pompadour
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. — Diogenes
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Silence is a source of great strength.
Good Wine Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. — Thomas Aquinas
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — M. F. K. Fisher
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. — Washington Irving
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods. — Maimonides
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something. — Maya Angelou
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. — Denise Richards
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! — Hilaire Belloc
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. — Joe Bob Briggs
Red Wine Quotes
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. — Omar Khayyam
Grains and beans are negative aspects of the Mediterranean Diet that are countered by the large amounts of olive-oil polyphenols, large amounts of red-wine polyphenols, and fish. — Steven Gundry
I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200. — Hans Rosling
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place. — Anthony Bourdain
Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time. — Madi Diaz
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. — Jim Harrison
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine. — Oscar Wilde
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach. — Jack Kerouac
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering. — Hilda Doolittle
Sweet Wine Quotes
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! — Johann Sebastian Bach
...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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — John Masefield
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. — Rumi
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton
Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass. — Allison Glock
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. — Amy Lowell
You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter. — David Gemmell
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. — Plautus
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter — Gustave Flaubert
Wine Lovers Quotes
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. — Paulo Coelho
The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino
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 — W. C. Fields
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. — John Webster
Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted. — Anthony Capella
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria. — Clifton Fadiman
White Wine Quotes
Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies. — Bette Davis
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies. — Bette Davis
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not. — Lord Byron
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it? — Amy Winehouse
Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white. — Kevin Zraly
Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying. — Demetri Martin
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat. — Oliver Reed
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine? — Charlie Trotter
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color. — Charles Bowden
I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine. — Lars von Trier
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be — Nina Simone
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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. — John Hurt
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. — Bob Blumer
Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake. — Leon Adams
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. — J. F. Powers
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? — Cardinal Richelieu
I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly. — Fiorello H. La Guardia
Fine Wine Quotes
Choose the fucks you give wisely. Because like a fine wine, our fucks must age into a fine vintage, only uncorked and given on the most special fucking occasion. — Mark Manson
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? — John Keats
I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come. — Richelle Mead
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. — Frank Muir
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. — Benjamin Cheever
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. — Jill Shalvis
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. — Ernest Hemingway
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine. — Ernest Hemingway
There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar. — Demi Moore
Bottles Of Wine Quotes
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
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire
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. — Kevin J. Anderson
The man shows a pig leg; the woman shows a bottle of wine. — Vietnamese Proverbs
They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type. — Erik Spiekermann
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. — Hester Browne
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.' — Gerald Asher
You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one. — Len Evans
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. — Virginia Madsen
Wine Country Quotes
You'll be my glass of wine
I'll be your shot of whiskey — Blake Shelton
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. — Oliver Cromwell
I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws. — Louis Agassiz
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. — Edmund Burke
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. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. — Thomas Jefferson
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region. — Paracelsus
I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open. — Robin Williams
As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own. — Jeff Gordon
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Wine And Love Quotes
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! — Leo Buscaglia
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin
Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. — Mikhail Bulgakov
I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. — Kathy Mattea
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. — Naomi Watts
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh. — William Butler Yeats
I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life. — Zoe Saldana
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. — Francis of Assisi
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. — Clifton Fadiman
Either give me more wine or leave me alone. — Rumi
Life is too short to drink bad wine. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus
I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. — Pablo Neruda
Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne! — Winston Churchill
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. — Epictetus
I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars. — Don Johnson
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. — Dave Barry
I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer. — Sophocles
I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret. — John Cleese
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. — Thomas Love Peacock
Where there is no wine there is no love. — Euripides
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet — Li Bai
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great — Benjamin Franklin
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. — Ovid
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old. — Martin Luther
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. — Jean Paul
We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way. — Ann Druyan
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. — Richard P. Feynman
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. — Fran Lebowitz
My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain
I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy. — Emeril Lagasse
He that drinks fast, pays slow.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
There can't be good living where there is not good drinking. — Benjamin Franklin
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