Wine Quotes
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When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, you should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.
Cato the Elder
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There is truth in wine and children.
Plato
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When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.
Alexis Lichine
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Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.
Deirdre O'Kane
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A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.
Georg Riedel
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New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.
Heinz Guderian
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Sweet berry wine!
John C. Reilly
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The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.
Alain Ducasse
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Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.
Ernest Bramah
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Don't know what's on your mind Yuh come fi have a good time Me waan yuh wine your waistline Me waan yuh shake your behind I'm in a dancing mood Gyal and I'm feeling good This is my favorite tune Put on your dancing shoes Gonna mek yuh feel so good tonight gyal Me gonna mek yuh feel alright
Christophe Le Friant
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We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux Telegraphe without revisiting a hotel bistro in Luzerne, Switzerland, where I ate a large bowl of a peppery Basque baby goat stew. A sip and a bite. A bite and sip. Goose bumps come with the divine conjunction of food and wine.
Jim Harrison
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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.
Virginia Woolf
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Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
Waverley Root
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Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
Ernest Hemingway
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A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
William Shakespeare
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I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
Buzz Aldrin
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My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
Lisa See
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If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'm a winemaker and a wine collector, so I usually just drink wine.
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
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You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.
David Gemmell
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
John Milton
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They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
Ernest Dowson