Wine Quotes - Page 31

• Friendship's the wine of life.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Real, Real Friends

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.38

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• Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

  Robert Mondavi

  Father, Stanford University, Lawyer

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• You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

  Graham Greene

  Thinking, Blood, Air

  "Monsignor Quixote". Book by Graham Greene, 1982.

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• I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

  Robert Mondavi

  Spring, Sunshine, Blessing

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

  William Nicholson

  Drinking, Thinking, Adultery

  William Nicholson (2014). “Motherland: A Novel”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Wine to me is all about sharing.

  Robert Mondavi

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

  Francis Bacon

  Powerful, Passion, Fuel

  "Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

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• Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

  John Webster

  Soldier, Vineyards, Woods

  'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

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• Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

  Lord Byron

  May, Soda, Mirth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.

  George Andrews

  Strong, Science, Technology

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• There are two types of wine essentially, and everybody knows this. There's the one where you drink it and go, "Mmmm, well that's ok, can we get 8 of those please, give us 8 of those." There's the other one, you know, where you go "Ga... bt... Jesus, WHAT is that?" Very, very occasionally I concede you will hit a subtle one. You know, where you go "Ga... ba... ah, actually that's not that bad, that is. It's quite nice."

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Jesus, Nice

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and
  A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Giving, Mind

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.220

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• The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

  Jean Drapeau

  Art, Real, Drinking

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• Well I sup and well I dine,
  When I drink my frolic wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Drink, Dine, Wells

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.164

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• Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
  There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and
  'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire;
  Sit close and draw the table nigher;
  Be merry and drink wine that is old,
  A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.

  John Fletcher

  Heart, Fire, Medicine

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• For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl,
  Then sleep the sorrows of our soul.
  Let us drink the juice divine,
  The gift of Bacchus, god of wine.
  When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

  Anacreon

  Sleep, Soul, Sorrow

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• A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Body, Sugar

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• I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

  Charles Bukowski

  Two, Together, Poor

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• Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Dowry, He Man

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

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• Marriage is like a fine aged wine. It has to endure its Time of Fermenting before its full-bodied Flavor and Bouquetcan be appreciate.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Appreciate, Flavor, Fine

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• I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Drinking, Relevant

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and 'The Walking Dead.' Sometimes I'll sip red wine - it's a nice way to slow down and relax.

  Carrie Underwood

  Nice, Idols, House

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• Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Victory, Defeat, University

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• If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wise, Lying, Thinking

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• The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

  Lord Byron

  Sight, Blood, Long

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

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