Wine Quotes

You are walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine
Callimachus

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in it.

I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.

Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.

When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.
Henry Aldrich

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
Thomas Tom Brown

I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.

Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love, and a little for the bottle
Charles Dibdin

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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

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.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quote: A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird
Eugene Field

They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.
Ernest Dowson

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol does not thrill me at all, So tell me why should it be true That I get a kick out of you.
Cole Albert Porter

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him." Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died.

Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When ever we let the wine rest. Here is death to Prohibitions fools, And every kind of vine-pest!
Jamrach Holobom

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of care.

My dear girl, there are some things that just are not done, such as drinking Dom Perignon 53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That is just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.
Bond







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