Old Wine Quotes

• If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Wine, Night

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6387, Delphi Classics

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• Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

  Don Johnson

  Wine, Vineyards, Drinking Champagne

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

  Homer

  Wise, Wine, Vineyards

  Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wine

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• I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

  Pablo Neruda

  Wine, Intelligent, Light

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Romantic, Wine

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.70, Library of Alexandria

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• I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

  Rose Kennedy

  Wine, Age, Aging

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• Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Wine, Ale

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Age

  Julia Child “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, Рипол Классик

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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• The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

  Thucydides

  Wine, Vines, Olives

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• Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Wine, Civilization

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

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• Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

  Aristophanes

  Clever, Wine, Mind

  "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..

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• Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wise, Wine, Old Friends

  Charles Kingsley (1831). “Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English".”, p.110

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• 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Food, Cooking, Age

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• When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

  Plato

  Wine, Men, Dinner

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• No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

  Horace

  Wine, Water, Drinkers

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• By wine eating cares are put to flight.
  [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

  Horace

  Wine, Care, Flight

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• Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Inspire, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

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• It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

  Ovid

  Wine, Eye, Blood

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• Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

  Ovid

  Heart, Wine, Too Much

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• Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

  Ovid

  Wine, Mind, Care

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• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Glasses, Years

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• White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

  James Joyce

  Wine, White, Looks

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