Wine Quotes - Page 2

• 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, Vineyards, Eating

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

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• Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

  Karl Marx

  Food, Drinking, Cooking

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• I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

  Robert Mondavi

  Ideas, Moderation, Economy

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Bottles, Vineyards, Lovers

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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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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• When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.

  Alexis Lichine

  Drinking, Vintage, People

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• The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

  Kirk Douglas

  Home, Best Wine

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• If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Soul, Body, Good Food Good Company

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• No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

  Horace

  Water, Drinkers, Written

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• Where there is no wine there is no love.

  Euripides

  Bottles Of Wine, Wine And Love, Great Wine

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• I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

  Michelangelo

  Funny Wine, Bread, Bread And Wine

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• When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

  Ovid

  Wings, Worry, Sorrow

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• God made only water, but man made wine.

  Victor Hugo

  Food, Men, Water

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• What wine goes with Captain Crunch?

  George Carlin

  Funny Wine, Captains, Crunch

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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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• There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Men, Majority Vote

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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• Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Joy, Ballet, Musical

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• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Stars, Discovery, Mankind

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• Wine is poetry in a bottle.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Bottles

  1985 Of wine. In Manhattan Inc, Jul.

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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, Dark, Men

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• I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Doctors, Glasses

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• There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Drinking, Two, Prevention

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