Wine Quotes
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
Rumi
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A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.
Virginia Woolf
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Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wine fills the heart with courage.
Plato
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Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.
George Ellwanger
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Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.
Cate Marvin
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Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
Andre Tchelistcheff
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One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.
Gerald Asher
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
William Wycherley
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What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?
William Gurnall
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Joy is the best of wine.
George Eliot
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?
Karlheinz Deschner
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A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Where there is no wine there is no love.
Euripides
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In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.
Evan Osnos
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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
Tim Ferriss
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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.
Russell Baker
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Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
William Lloyd Garrison
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The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.
Herodotus
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You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
Elvis Costello
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I don't drink no whiskey but I'm a fool about my home made wine. I stays around Dallas cause I makes it there all the time.
Blind Lemon Jefferson
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If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
Arsene Wenger