Wine Quotes

Dynamite? It is like wine, it only gets better with age.

Tracker Lewis Gates

If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.

Chet

In water one sees ones own face; But in wine, one beholds the heart of another.

Old Frech proverb

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Plutarch

WINE and Fermented grape-juice known to the Womens Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is Gods next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

Rudyard Kipling

I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson

For singing till his heaven fills, Tis love of earth that he instills, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which over flows To lift us with him as he goes.

George Meredith

I rather like bad wine . . . one gets so bored with good wine.

Benjamin Disraeli

Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine hosts Canary wine?

John Keats

Who does not love wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

Johann Heinrich

From wine what sudden friendship springs

John Gay

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Samuel Pepys

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine.

John Milton