Wine Quotes

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

G. K. Chesterton

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

Benjamin Franklin

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

William Shakespeare

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.'

G. K. Chesterton

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

Alexandre Dumas

The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

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

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Michel de Montaigne

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that 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.

Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

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

The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted.

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

I know not how, but martial men are given to love. I think it is but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Benjamin Franklin

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

George Bernard Shaw

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

Henry David Thoreau

She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.