Wine Quotes

"Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter,

 the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly."
W.E.P. French
From the wine list of Commander's Palace in New Orleans, LA

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

"A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for,

a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization."
Kingsley Amis - Everyday Drinking

"The wines that one best remembers are not necessarily the finest that one has ever tasted,

and the highest quality may fail to delight so much

as some far more humble beverage drunk in more favorable surroundings."
H. Warner Allen

"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."
Martin Luther

"If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?"
Cardinal Richelieu

"Up to the age of forty, eating is beneficial.

After forty, drinking."
The Talmud

"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

"The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations."

French proverb

"Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach."
Spanish saying

"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer

"I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you."
Cole Porter - Anything Goes

CONNOISSEUR, n.
A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

"An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision,

some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

’Pauillac, 1873,' he murmured and died."
Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

"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."
John Cleese - Fawlty Towers

"Alcohol - the cause of and solution to all of life's problems."
Homer Simpson

"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

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