Winey Quotes

I’ve “harvested” the good quotes on wine…

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

Beer is made by men, wine by God. ~ Martin Luther

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. ~ Charles Baudelaire

In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song. ~ Franklin P. Adams, The Ancient Three. Dictionary of Quotations, Bergen Evans, 1968.

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. ~ Attributed to the late Julia Child.

She gets to keep the chalet and the Rolls, I want the Montrachet. ~ Anonymous, Forbes Magazine, May 6, 1996.

On drinking the wines of Bordeaux: The French drink them young, so a Socialist government won’t take them. The English drink them old, so they can show their friends cobwebs and dusty bottles. The American drink them exactly when they are ready, because they don’t know any better. ~ Anonymous

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink; that’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for. ~ W. C. Fields

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 nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. ~ Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast