Quotes
Quotes about Wine
Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 timesâin water, in butter and in wine.
O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
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.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with
Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.
Here's to old Adam's crystal ale, Clear sparkling and divine, Fair H2O, long may you flow, We think your health (in wine).
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine."
Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,-- Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."
When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laertius Diogenes,
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through Under the Andes to the Cape, Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.
From wine what sudden friendship springs?
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
