Wine And Age Quotes

• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Lying, Drinking

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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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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• There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Wine, Men

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Drinking, Wine

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• When the wine is in, the wit is out.

  Thomas Becon

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  'Catechism' (ed. J. Ayre, 1844) p. 375

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• The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

  George Herbert

  Wine, Doe, Bottles

  "Jacula Prudentum" by George Herbert, 1651.

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• Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Wine, Envy

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

  Diogenes

  Wine, Drunk, Cost

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• Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wine, Age, Comfort

  Evelyn Waugh (1947*). “Wine in peace and war”

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

  Athenaeus

  Food, Cooking, Age

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• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

  Isak Dinesen

  Wine, Later In Life, People

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.83, Vintage

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• Give me a bowl of wine,
  In this I bury all unkindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Giving, Bacchus

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.488

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• Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  Pope John XXIII

  Birthday, Drinking, Wine

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• Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

  Joan Collins

  Funny, Birthday, Wine

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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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• 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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• Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

  Michael Broadbent

  Drinking, Wine, Vineyards

  Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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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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• Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mother, Heart, Wine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1837). “Goetz Von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand: A Drama in Five Acts”, p.20

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• I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wine, Bored, So Bored

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 1, 1845.

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• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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