Wine Quotes

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after

Lord Byron, Don Juan

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

Robert Herrick

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise endow.

Omar Khayyam

Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach

Spanish saying

I love everything thats old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Oliver Goldsmith

The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.

French proverb

I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm .

T.B. Aldrich

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

Diogenes the Cynic

A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.

Michael Broadbent

The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.

Paul S. Winalski

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

God made only water, but man made wine.

Vixtor Hugo

The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler.

Titus Maccius

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Heraclitus

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon