Good Wine Quotes - Page 2

• As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

  Johannes Tauler

  Wine, Foundation, Body

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• We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Europe, United States

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.315

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• A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

  Walter Scott

  Wine, Glasses, Poor

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.195, e-artnow

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• Good wine needs no bush,
  And perhaps products that people really want
  Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
  Why not?
  Look at pot.

  Ogden Nash

  Humorous, Wine, People

  "Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief". "The Old Dog Barks Backwards". Book by Ogden Nash, 1972.

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Regret, Wine, Sleep

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• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

  Jack Vance

  Wine, Adventure, Past

  Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

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• Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

  George Ellwanger

  Wine, Men, Oil

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• Never did a great man hate good wine.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hate, Wine, Men

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• If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Wine, Glasses, Doe

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Sheridaniana; or, anecdotes of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; his table talk, and bon mots”, p.261

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• To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

  Andre Maurois

  Women, Wine, Pretty Woman

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

  Vittorio Grigolo

  Wine, Thinking, Voice

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• To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Goodbye, Children, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.101, Penguin

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• There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

  Karen MacNeil

  Wine, Dollars, Bottles

  "Wine prices: How much to pay". www.cnn.com.

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• As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

  Bobby Sherman

  Wine, Meals, Cocktails

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• 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

  Sweet, Laughter, Children

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 18, 1984.

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• Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Falling In Love, Wine, Play

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• You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wine, Firsts, Knows

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• Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

  Mark Twain

  Wine, Jugs, Needs

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girlfriend, Nice, Wine

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• 'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Reading, Wine, Would Be

  Albert Bushnell Hart (1895). “Studies in American Education”, New York : Longmans, Green

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• To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.

  Dave Chambers

  Art, Memories, Wine

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

  Gene Perret

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wine

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• I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations.

  Mehgan Heaney-Grier

  Ocean, Wine, Adventure

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• You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

  Leslie Jones

  Wine, Waiting, Bombs

  Source: w.espn.go.com

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