Wine Quotes

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

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

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

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

Baba Bathra

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lord Byron

Wine is the thinking person's health drink

Dr. Phillip Norrie

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

Dr Philip Norrie

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

Benjamin Franklin

Compromises are for relationships, not wine.

Sir Robert Scott Caywood

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

Sir Walter Scott

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

William Shakespeare

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

Clifton Fadiman

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

Clifton Fadiman

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Clifton Fadiman