Best 1268 quotes in «wine quotes» category

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.

Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.

Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit; There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and 'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire; Sit close and draw the table nigher; Be merry and drink wine that is old, A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

Wine is the divine juice of September.

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

Wine transforms moles into eagles.

Wine always inspires sociability.

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

Wine is a chemical symphony. and The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really differentiate them. This differentiation cannot occur until we are thoroughly familiar with both. The same is true with wines.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

Wine to me is something that brings people together.  Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating.  It's the greatest subject to study.  No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.

Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.