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Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious.

I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles.

A Bishop of Seville

When the wine [made at her chateau] is in the golden period of effervescing, any sick child in the village ticketed by the doctor can be brought to the wine-presses and dipped in. If labeled tres malade, he is dipped in twice.

Lillie de Hergermann

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Julia Child

A hard drinker, being at table, was offered grapes at dessert. Thank you, said he, pushing the dish away from him, but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in pills.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Clifton Fadiman

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Clifton Fadiman

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Clifton Fadiman

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.

William Shakespeare

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome.

Sir Walter Scott

The Irish believe that fairies are extremely fond of good wine. The proof of the assertion is that in the olden days royalty would leave a keg of wine out for them at night. Sure enough, it was always gone in the morning.

Irish Folklore

Compromises are for relationships, not wine.

Sir Robert Scott Caywood

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

Benjamin Franklin

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

Andre Simon

Consuming wine in moderation daily will help people to die young as late as possible

Dr Philip Norrie

Wine is the thinking person's health drink

Dr. Phillip Norrie

Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.

Lord Byron

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary.

Baba Bathra

ï Never buy the cheapest wine in any category, as its taste may discourage you from going on. The glass, corks, cartons, and labor are about the same for any wine, as are the ocean freight and taxes for imported wines. Consequently, if you spend a little more, you are likely to get a better wine, because the other costs remain fixed. Cheap wine will always be too expensive.

Alex Bespaloff

I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, There are no good wines, only good bottles

Gerald Asher

We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory, but so are those of the ballet or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Napoleon

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description

Thomas Conklin

He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate - bringing forth food from the earth: wine that makes glad the heart of man.

Psalms

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