Wine And Friends Quotes

• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Flower, Wine

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• Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.

  Robert Mondavi

  Passion, Heart, Wine

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, True Friend, Wine

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

  James Joyce

  Wine, The End Of The Day, Drink

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• 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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• One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

  John Milton

  Dream, Drinking, Alcohol

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.379

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• Life is too short to drink bad wine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life Is Too Short, Wine, Vineyards

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• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Wine, Flames

  'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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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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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Wine, Doctors

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• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

  Tom Waits

  Friends, Pain, Real

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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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• 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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• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Excellence

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• The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Vineyards, Littles

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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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• A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Men, Laughing

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [95]

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Don Johnson

  Wine, Vineyards, Drinking Champagne

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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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