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
Unconventional Old Wine quotations
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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.
New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures.
Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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.
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Old wine and friends improve with age.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
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.
Old days won't open new doors.
If I go Before I'm old Oh, brother of mine Please don't forget me if I go Bartender, please Fill my glass for me With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free After three days in the ground.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
Old ways won't open new doors.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
Fight me if you wish, but remember I am old for a reason.
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.
Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines.
He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Where there is no wine there is no love.
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady.
It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life
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
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards.
Strong beer is the milk of the old.
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.
What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing.
And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?
