Wine and Quotations about it

"In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism or a sign of sophistication or a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary." - Ernest Hemingway, "A Moveable Feast"

"I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles." - A Bishop of Seville Baron

"When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, and improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people." - George Saintsbury

Thomas Jefferson on wine:

"I rejoice as a moralist at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine by our national legislature... Its extended use will carry health and comfort to a much enlarged circle."

"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."

"Wine... the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."

"Good wine is a necessity of life for me."

"Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die." - Julia Child

"Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved." - Medieval German saying

"Wine had such ill effects on Noah’s health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long." - Will Rogers

"Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne." - Paul Claudel

"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance." - Benjamin Franklin

"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic and the serious smile." - Homer, "Odyssey"

"To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history." - Clifton Fadiman

"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover." - Clifton Fadiman

"I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell." - Omar Khayyam

"I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age." - Steven Wright

"Compromises are for relationships, not wine." - Sir Robert Scott Caywood

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world." - Ernest Hemingway

"From wine what sudden friendship springs!" - John Gay

"In wine one beholds the heart of another" - Anonymous

"There can be no bargain without wine." - Latin saying

"[Wine is] poetry in a bottle." - Clifton Fadiman

"In wine there is truth." - Pliny The Elder

Do not forget the advice of the Solomon:

"Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

"Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine."

"Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!"

"In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper."

"Your eyes will see strange sights and your mind imagine confusing things."

"You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging."

"They hit me," you will say, "but I'm not hurt! They beat me, but I don't feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?" Solomon’s proverbs 23:29-35

"Prostitution and old wine take away the understanding." ( Hosea 4:11)

"Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise."- Proverbs 20:1

"... Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good ..." Titus 2:3

"... time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings ... "1 Peter 4:3

"... For the overseer must be above reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain ..." Titus 1:7