Drinking Wine Quotes - Page 2

• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Drinking, Wine, Alcohol

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Golf, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Aristophanes

  Friendship, Clever, Wine

  Knights, l. 92., 424 B.C..

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Thinking, Errors

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Alcohol, Vineyards

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

  Ovid

  Courage, Drinking, Passion

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• If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

  Henry Aldrich

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  'Reasons for Drinking'

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• A meal without wine is like a day without sun

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine, Alcohol, Sun

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• 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

  Wine, Differences, Vineyards

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• My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

  Sean Connery

  Girl, Drinking, Wine

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• Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Wine, Vineyards

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cheer, Drinking, Beer

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• One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

  Edward VII

  Wine, Smell, Taste

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• I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

  W. C. Fields

  Beautiful, Drinking, Wine

  Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (motion picture) (1941).

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• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

  Candida (1898) act 3

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

  Kinky Friedman

  Beauty, Philosophy, Drinking

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• Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

  Paul Claudel

  Wine, Glasses, Champagne Drinking

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• Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

  Ben Jonson

  Romantic, Food, Wine

  "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

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• 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

  Country, Food, Wine

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• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Destiny, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [285]

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• I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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  it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

  Kenny Chesney

  Summer, Wine, Kissing

  Song: Summertime, Album: The Road And The Radio, 2005

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• If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Drinking, Wine, Made

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