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"Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose." »Edwin L. Arnold
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"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken." »Homer
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"A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." »Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
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"wine is bottled poetry." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved." »Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." »Pope John XXIII
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"Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark." »Ovid
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"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good." »Cuban Proverb
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"wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion." »Ovid
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"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." »Robert Fripp
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"It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine." »Heraclitus
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"Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart." »Aeschylus
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"Religions change; beer and wine remain." »Hervey Allen
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"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"They say “Wine is Satan's falcon,”; apparently he uses it in hunting men!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it." »Chinese Proverb
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"One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all." »Alcaeus
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"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever." »Aristophanes
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"What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?" »Cyril Connolly
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"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain." »Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800
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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." »Benjamin Johnson
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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 Johnson
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"Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine." »Polish Proverb
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"The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault." »Paul S. Winalski
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"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it." »Frank Muir
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"Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind." »Wilfred Wilson Gibson
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"A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds." »Chinese proverb
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"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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