Wine to me is passion. It is family and friends. It is warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It is culture. It is the essence of civilization and the art of living.
Robert Mondavi
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to a lack of wine.
Anonymous
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.
Paul Claudel
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Alexander Pope
So lifeÃs year begins and closes; Days though shortening still can shine; What though youth gave love and roses; Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Thomas Moore
The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
William Shakespeare
We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.
Thomas Jefferson
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the wine.
Thucydides
The importance of wine shows up early in the Bible: And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:20
I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.
Gerald Asher
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You do not want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste
Ernest Hemingway
One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice, and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.
Yoshida Kenko
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.
Isadora Duncan
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson