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Wine Quotes
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
Frank Muir
There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.
Fortune cookie
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
Chinese proverb
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Dave Winer
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado--I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port.
Paul S. Winalski
The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
Paul S. Winalski
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
Chinese proverb
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Dave Winer
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
Hervey Allen
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
In the mirror like relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own "true" nature might never be known.
David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden," the Conclusion
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
Austin O'Malley
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