Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Wine

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  Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  God, Rain, Wine

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Writings”, Library of America

• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.290

• There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.347, Bantam Classics

• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Tolerance, Vines

• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

• The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Witty, Stars

• When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Wine, Games

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

• We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Eye, Wine

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.226

• Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Water, Resolve

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.34, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Wine, Water

• Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Food, Wine

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

• Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Art, Food, Wine

• Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Bakers, Pudding

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.42, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sweet, Wine, Vinegar

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.1, Courier Corporation

• Twas Noah who first planted the vine
  And mended his morals by drinking its wine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Wine, Vines

• I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Wine, America

  Benjamin Franklin (1815). “The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself. Together with humorous, moral and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Among which are several not in any American edition”, p.199

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