Witty Wine Quotes

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

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Soul, Body

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

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

  Alexander Fleming

  Wine, People, Vineyards

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• I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

  Rose Kennedy

  Wine, Age, Aging

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

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Drinking, Wine, Made

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

  Ovid

  Courage, Drinking, Passion

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

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Golf, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Birthday, Wine, Turning 50

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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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• The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Witty, Stars

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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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• 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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  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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• 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 makes every meal an occasion.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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• Beer is made by men, wine by God.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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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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• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

  Tom Waits

  Friends, Pain, Real

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• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Wine, Men

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