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
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.
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.
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.
Old wine and friends improve with age.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where there is no wine there is no love.
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
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.
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
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.
My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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?
