Wine Quotes - Page 5

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

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Flower, Age Love

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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, Civilization, Perfection

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

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• Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Holes

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• Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Wisdom, Silence

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

  Andre Simon

  Meals, Vineyards, Tables

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Regret, Sleep, Glasses

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• One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drinking, Drunk, Matter

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• Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

  Ben Jonson

  Romantic, Food, Eye

  "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

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• The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking

  Alexis Lichine

  Drinking, Vineyards, Way

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• We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Eye, Godly

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.226

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• Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

  Homer

  Tired, Men, Red Wine

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• My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Water, Genius

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• My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

  Alan Rickman

  Definitions, Might, Different

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• What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

  Plato

  Taken, Character, Men

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.

  Michael Broadbent

  Sight, Years, Labels

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

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• What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.

  Frank J. Prial

  Southern Italy, Tea, Insane

  "WINE TALK; Beaujolais Presents Its Nobler Profile" by Frank J. Prial, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2000.

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• I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

  William Shakespeare

  Hot, Cups, Wine And Friends

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 2, sc. 1, l. [52]

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• And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Lasts, Chickens, Champagne

  'Six Town Eclogues' (1747) 'The Lover' l. 25

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• The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

  Joseph Haydn

  Drinking, Relatives And Friends, Criminals

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• Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.

  Randle Cotgrave

  Advice, Bread, Drink

  Randle COTGRAVE (1660). “A Dictionarie of the French and English tongues. Containing also"Briefe directions for such as desire to learne the French tongue."With a plate”, p.730

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• I tasted - careless - then -
  I did not know the Wine
  Came once a World - Did you?
  Oh, had you told me so -
  This Thirst would blister - easier - now

  Emily Dickinson

  World, Easier, Blisters

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology are teaching us how to work with the checks and balances of nature, and encouraging a new, rational, limited-input, environmentally sound means of vineyard management that offers a third way between the ideologically driven approach of Biodynamics and conventional chemical-based agricultural systems.

  Jamie Goode

  Teaching, Mean, Understanding

  Jamie Goode (2005). “The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

  Samuel Pepys

  God, Drinking, Leaving

  Diary 26 January (1662)

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• My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

  Sean Connery

  Girl, Drinking, Listening

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