Wine Making Quotes

• Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.

  Robert Mondavi

  Art, Wine, Skills

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• Beer is made by men, wine by God.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Wine, People

  1613 Guildford. Henry VIII, act 1, sc.4, l.6-7.

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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• Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

  Alexander Fleming

  Wine, People, Vineyards

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• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Silly, Food, Wine

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Tolerance, Vines

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• I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Wine, Jelly, Lord

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• God made only water, but man made wine.

  Victor Hugo

  Food, Wine, Men

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• 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

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• If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Drinking, Wine, Made

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• A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Men, Laughing

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [95]

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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• Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Romantic, Wine

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.70, Library of Alexandria

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• Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Drinking, Wine

  "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

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• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Drinking, Food

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, p. 659, 1791.

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• Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

  Homer

  Wise, Wine, Vineyards

  Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Food, Wine

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• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

  Ovid

  Courage, Drinking, Passion

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• Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.

  Leon Adams

  Believe, Wine, Fake

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• Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

  James Howell

  Wine, Men, Blood

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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• If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wise, Lying, Wine

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• 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

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