Women And Wine Quotes

• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Drinking, Food

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!

  Ravinder Singh

  Wine, World, Wealth

  Ravinder Singh (2011). “Can Love Happen Twice?”, p.77, Penguin UK

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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, Wine, Glasses

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

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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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• 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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• Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Wine, Games

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

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• Don't mix wine and women.

  Cesare Pavese

  Wine

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
  And fires us
  With courage, love and joy.
  Women and wine should life employ.
  Is there ought else on earth desirous?

  John Gay

  Life, Courage, Wine

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 1, air 19

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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 the most civilized thing in the world.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Vineyards, World

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• Wine and women bring misery.

  Martial

  Wine, Misery

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• A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Drinking, Book

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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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• Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

  George Herbert

  Wine, Men, Laughing

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.321

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• Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

  William Osler

  Girl, Wine, Wife

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• 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, Wine, Vineyards

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

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• Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

  Homer

  Wise, Wine, Vineyards

  Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179

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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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• 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

  Wine, Water, Tea

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• I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Thinking, Errors

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Drinking

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• A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

  Edward Fitzgerald

  Book, Wine, Jugs

  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 4th ed., st. 11 (1879).

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• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

  Martin Luther

  Wine, Men, Abuse

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