Wine Toast Quotes

• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

  Myrtle Reed

  Friendship, House, May

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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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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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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.

  Ben Jonson

  Romantic, Food, Wine

  "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

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• Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Wine, Civilization

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, 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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• Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Wine, Fighting

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• Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

  Louis Pasteur

  Food, Drinking, Health

  Etudes sur le vin Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. B

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• He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Life, Song

  "Luther's Works: Table talk".

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• God made only water, but man made wine.

  Victor Hugo

  Food, Wine, Men

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

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Drinking, Wine, Made

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• Life is too short to drink bad wine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life Is Too Short, Wine, Vineyards

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• Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

  Don Johnson

  Wine, Vineyards, Drinking Champagne

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• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Excellence

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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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• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wine, Shining, Bottles

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.473, e-artnow

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• Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Age

  Julia Child “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, Рипол Классик

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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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