Wine Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Eye

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

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mother, Heart, Men

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

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• Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

  Alexander Fleming

  People, Vineyards, Cures

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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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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Drinking, Alcohol

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Joy, Add, Vineyards

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Old Friends, Age

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Tennis, Getting Older

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• A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Men, Glasses

  On being encountered drinking a glass of wine in the street, while watching his theatre, the Drury Lane, burn down; in T. Moore 'Life of Sheridan' (1825) 2, 20

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  There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

  Bette Davis

  Drinking, Glasses, Alcohol

  "Fictional character: Kit Marlowe". "Old Acquaintance", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

  William Blake

  Water, Best Wine

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Mind, Cows

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• Over the wine-dark sea.

  Homer

  Dark, Sea, Iliad

  Homer (2004). “Iliad of Homer”, p.128, 1st World Publishing

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• Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

  Salvador Dali

  Secret, Plus

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• The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

  Thucydides

  Vines, Olives, Barbarism

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• Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Water, Tea, Vineyards

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• Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

  Julia Child

  Drinking, Experts, Becoming

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.16, Knopf

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

  Aristophanes

  Clever, Mind, Vineyards

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

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• In wine, there's truth.

  Pliny the Elder

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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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, Vineyards, May

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

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• I am drinking the stars

  Dom Perignon

  Stars, Drinking

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• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Candida (1898) act 3

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• I hate to see a beautiful woman drink bad wine

  Victor Lanoux

  Beautiful, Hate, Drink

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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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• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Names, Evil

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [285]

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