Wine Quotes

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine,
a wise man to watch over it,
a lucid poet to make it,
and a lover to drink it.

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.

When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.

Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Your lips and mine, two sips of wine, memories are made of this.

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!