Wine Quotes

A list of where wine has inspired thoughtful - or comedic - musings

Classical Where there is no wine there is no love. – Euripides Wine moistens and tempers the spirits, and lulls the care of the mind to rest ... it revives our joys.  – Socrates Nothing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted to mankind by God. – Plato In wine, there's truth. – Pliny the Elder Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. – Homer A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. – Clifton Fadiman Either give me more wine or leave me alone. – Rumi Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. – Francis Bacon Beer is made by men, wine by God. – Martin Luther He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long. – Martin Luther Wine... the intellectual part of the meal. – Alexandre Dumas Wine rejoices the heart of man, and joy is the mother of all virtues. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.  -  Charles Baudelaire  Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary. – Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.  -  Benjamin Franklin Wine is constant proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it. ― Napoleon Bonaparte Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.  -  Napoleon Bonaparte One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water. ― Victor Hugo Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget its toil. - Lord Byron A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. – Louis Pasteur Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. – Louis Pasteur With wine and hope, anything is possible. – Spanish proverb A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. - William Blake High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. – Mark Twain

Contemporary Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne! - Winston Churchill The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes of its secrets – Salvador Dalí My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine. – Ernest Hemingway A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. – Clifton Fadiman It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! – Kenny Chesney The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. – Marty Rubin Life's too short to drink cheap wine... – Cliff Hakim Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill. – Marty Rubin The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. – Thomas Love Peacock Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better. – Eric Weiner Wine ages gracefully in a cellar, but gets no wiser. – Rajesh Next time you drink a glass of champagne, remember that it is essentially a faulty wine from an unpromising place, made great by the genius of man. –Neel Burton These are the best companions for an intelligent woman: a good book and a good glass of wine. – Augusto Branco I want to start a book club. But instead of reading books, we trash talk and drink wine. – Tanya Masse Love is the wine as old as time, which quenches our lonely longing. – John Mark Green People who want you in their lives, respect you whether you are grapes or fine wine. – Sanita Belgrave There’s wine spilled all over the floor and I wish to write stories with it. – Maya Zaveri Wisdom is like a fermented wine. It's only appreciated when shared. – Andrew-Knox B Kaniki Never Drink Boring Wine – Keith Wallace Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors. – Adam Gopnik The more he drank the nicer he became; wine revealed his charity. – Jeet Thayil Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning. – Douglas Preston True love is like wine, it gets stronger with age. – Farid F. Ibrahim Love is like wine, it gets better every day. – Vann Chow What chance does logic have against a glass of wine and a kiss? – Marty Rubin Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. – Alexander Fleming 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 If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. – Clifton Fadiman Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures. – Michael Broadbent

Comedic Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. - Benjamin Franklin If lovers of wine and love are bound for hell, heaven would be quite empty! – Omar Khayyam What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? – James Joyce I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. – W.C. Fields What wine goes with Captain Crunch? – George Carlin I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved. – Rachel Hawkins If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly. – Sandra Byrd WINE! Because these problems aren’t going to forget THEMSELVES! – Comic Strip Mama 'Never cook with a wine you wouldn’t drink,' he said. 'Though I guess that presupposes that there is a wine I wouldn’t drink.' – Lev Grossman I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't! – Tanya Masse Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.  -  unknown I think I’m like wine. The older I get, the better I get.   - Zlatan Ibrahimović If you ask a server for a seriously old wine in my neighborhood, they’ll look at you funny and then bring you a half-finished glass from somebody else’s table. – Gina Barreca I'd suggest meditation to calm you down but that would take time. Wine takes a faster effect... – Mystqx Skye I think we men are like fine wine. We start out as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the crap out of us until we are turned into something acceptable to have dinner with... – Nitya Prakash Wine is the answer, but I can’t remember the question.  - Unknown. I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.  - Basil Fawlty It takes a lot of good beer to make great wine.  ― Brian O’Donnell (Winemaker) Champagne is appropriate for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.  ― Madeline Puckette I have often thought that the aim of Port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before. - Mikes György (George Mikes)