Wine Quotes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomachs sake and thine often infirmities.
1 Timothy
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; ones present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason.
Latin saying
Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved
Medieval German saying
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
What though youth gave love and roses age still leaves us friends and wine
Thomas Moore
Up to the age of forty eating is beneficial. After forty, drinking.
The Talmud
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
The Book of Psalms
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
The Proverbs
Like the best wine . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
The Song of Solomon
Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may try a bout with love.
Anacreon
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
