Top 38 Wine Quotes

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Wine is the elixir of life. With that in mind, check out the top 38 wine quotes.

#38 – 30. Wine Quotes

38. Water for oxen, wine for kings. – Proverb

37. Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local caf? to the speech at a formal dinner. – Roland Barthes

36. In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it. – Napoleon Bonaparte

35. Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII

34. Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin. – Napoleon Bonaparte

33. Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman

31. It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. – Joseph Conrad

30. Either give me more wine or leave me alone. – Rumi

#29 – 20. Wine Quotes

29. Wine is the only artwork you can drink – Luis Fernando Olaverri.

28. He who knows how to taste does not drink wine but savours secrets – Salvador Dalì.

27. Beer is made by men, wine by God. – Martin Luther

26. Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson

25. Champagne is appropriate for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. – Madeline Puckette

24. In wine there’s truth – Pliny the Elder.

23. It’s a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption. – James Thurber

22. Wine is sunlight, held together by water – Galileo Galilei.

21. Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. – Louis Pasteur

20. I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton

#19 – 10. Wine Quotes

19. We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless. – Russell Brand

18. It takes a lot of good beer to make great wine. – Brian O’Donnell

17. My only regret in life is that I didn’t drink enough Champagne. – Robert Noecker

16. Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake. – Leon Adams

15. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence – Ropert Fripp.

14. Where there is no wine there is no love – Euripides.

13. God made only water, but man made wine – Victor Hugo.

12. Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. – Alexander Fleming

11. You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. – Omar Khayyam

10. What wine goes with Captain Crunch? – George Carlin

#9 – 1. Wine Quotes

9. A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world – Louis Pasteur.

8. Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. – Paulo Coelho

7. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. – W.C. Fields

6. A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. – Kathy Mattea

5. The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. – Benjamin Franklin

4. Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. – Joan Collins

3. 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

2. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson

1. This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. – Ernest Hemingway

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