Fine Wine Quotes

• Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

  Frank Muir

  Wine, Bottles, Tactics

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• Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mother, Heart, Wine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1837). “Goetz Von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand: A Drama in Five Acts”, p.20

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• Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Wine, Vineyards

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Drinking, Wine, Glasses

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• Where there is no wine there is no love.

  Euripides

  Wine, Bottles Of Wine, Wine And Love

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• Men are like a 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.

  Jill Shalvis

  Jobs, Wine, Dark

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• People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

  Rick Kaplan

  Wine, People, Age

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• Life is but a fine wine to be sipped and favored.

  Pittacus Lore

  Wine, Life Is, Fine

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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Alcohol, Vineyards

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Vineyards

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Regret, Food, Wine

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• The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Vineyards, Littles

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• A meal without wine is like a day without sun

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine, Alcohol, Sun

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• Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

  Aristophanes

  Clever, Wine, Mind

  "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..

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• Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Birthday, Wine, Turning 50

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• Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  Pope John XXIII

  Birthday, Drinking, Wine

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• 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

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• Beer is made by men, wine by God.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.

  Richelle Mead

  Motivational, Wine, Get Better

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

  Plato

  Wine, Men, Granted

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• Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

  John Keats

  Food, Book, Wine

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• There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

  Jane Austen

  Wine, Climate, Want

  Jane Austen (1848). “Northanger Abbey: A Novel”, p.47

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