Great Wine Quotes Page 2

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards.

Strong beer is the milk of the old.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

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.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

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.

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.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine.

Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury.

On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men.

Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small;

Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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

Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better.

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.

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