Wine Quotes - Page 23

• For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl,
  Then sleep the sorrows of our soul.
  Let us drink the juice divine,
  The gift of Bacchus, god of wine.
  When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

  Anacreon

  Sleep, Soul, Sorrow

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• Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Flow, Universe

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• If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Doe, Serious

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• When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

  Aristophanes

  Men, Busy, Rich

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• Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

  Emile Augier

  Drinking, Thirst

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• Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Thinking, Iron, Age

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• I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

  Winston Churchill

  White, Glasses, Special

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

  Abraham Cowley

  Rose, Temples, Bowls

  Abraham Cowley (1784). “The Poetical Works of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.245

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• Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains,
  And drives the mist of dullness from the brains,
  The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies,
  And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

  George Crabbe

  Views, Brain, Gains

  George Crabbe (1855). “Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.383

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• Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
  All things, in short, to which belong
  The charm, the grace that Time
  makes strong,
  All these I prize, but (entre nous)
  Old friends are best!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Strong, Book, Blue

  Henry Austin Dobson, “To Richard Watson Gilder”

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• The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

  Jean Drapeau

  Art, Real, Drinking

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• Fish without wine is like egg without salt.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Eggs, Salt, Fishes

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• There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
  A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

  Eugene Field

  Honest, Candor, Certain

  Eugene Field, “The Bottle And The Bird”

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• Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
  There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and
  'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire;
  Sit close and draw the table nigher;
  Be merry and drink wine that is old,
  A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.

  John Fletcher

  Heart, Fire, Medicine

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• (Wine is) the nurse of old age.

  Galen

  Nurse, Age, Old Age

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• Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
  Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

  John Harington

  Beautiful, Strong, Dancing

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• Well I sup and well I dine,
  When I drink my frolic wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Drink, Dine, Wells

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.164

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• Wine give strenght to weary men. and
  And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
  Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
  Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
  Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
  No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
  Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
  Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
  To drown the bitterness of cares.

  Homer

  Wise, Powerful, Heart

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• Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and
  A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Giving, Mind

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.220

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• All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Summer, Blood, Tears

  Richard Le Gallienne (2008). “The Quest of the Golden Girl”, p.30, Wildside Press LLC

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• This song of mine
  Is a song of the vine
  To be sung by the glowing embers
  Of wayside inns,
  When the rain begins
  To darken the drear Novembers. and
  For the richest and best
  Is the wind of the West
  That grows by the Beautiful River;
  Whose sweet perfume
  Fills all the room
  With a bension on the giver. and
  When you ask one friend to dine,
  Give hime your best wine!
  When you ask two,
  The second best will do.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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• I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

  John P. Marquand

  Tables

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• A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and
  Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.

  Martial

  Thinking, Leaving, Jars

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• A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

  George Meredith

  Imagination, House, Soil

  George Meredith (1995). “The Egoist”, p.159, Wordsworth Editions

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• When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Broken, Saint, Levels

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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