Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. – Alexander Fleming
Wine is life. – Petronius, Roman writer
He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret – Samuel Johnson Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin – Napoleon
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. – Thomas Jefferson
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. – Paul Claudel
Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil – Lord Byron
I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith
Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. – Ovid
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. – William Shakespeare
Where there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. – Anonymous
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. – Clifton Fadiman
Blind tastings are to wine what strip poker is to love. – Kermit Lynch
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. – William Shakespeare
Good wine needs no bush – William Shakespeare
After-dinner talk
Across the walnuts and the wine. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine. – Stephen Phillips
Days of wine and roses laugh and run away,
Like a child at play. – Johnny Mercer
Fill high the cup with Samian wine! – Lord Byron
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babies, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. – John Stuart Blackie
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. – Anonymous
Compromises are for relationships, not wine. – Sir Robert Scott Caywood
Beer is made by men, wine by God! – Martin Luther
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures. – Michael Broadbent
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance. – Benjamin Franklin
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health – J Thomas Jefferson
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? – James Joyce
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night – J D H Lawrence
He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long. – Martin Luther
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food!! – Anonymous
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world – Ernest Hemingway
And water is on the Bishop’s board and the Higher Thinker’s shrine,
But I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine – G.K. Chesterton
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne – John Maynard Keynes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine – St. Thomas Aquinas
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