100+ Interesting Quotes About Wine

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. – Clifton Fadiman

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

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

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. – Omar Khayyam

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Robert Mondavi

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

All worries are less with wine. – Amit Kalantri

Artists and poets still find life’s meaning in a glass of wine. – Joy Sterling

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

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

Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. – Aeschylus

Compromises are for relationships, not wine. – Sir Robert Scott Caywood

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill. – Marty Rubin

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures. – Michael Broadbent

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool. – Neel Burton

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

Fumes of wine shorten the long road. – Bai Juyi

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

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

Great wine works wonders and is itself one. – Edward Steinberg

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

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. – Heraclitus

His lips drink water, but his heart drinks wine. – E.E.cummings

I cannot offer wine without the poison of the alcohol within. – Ada Palmer

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

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. – Oliver Goldsmith

I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can… and WINE to help me accept the things I can’t! – Tanya Masse

I will drink milk when cows eat a grape. – Henri de Toulouse

I’m no connoisseur of wines, but I know what’s bad. – Lynne Reid Banks

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. – Clifton Fadiman

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night. – D. H. Lawrence

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

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

It [good wine] should start and end with a smile. – William Sokolin

Let us celebrate with wine and sweet words. – Plautus

Life’s too short to drink cheap wine… – Cliff Hakim

Like human beings, a wine’s taste is going to depend a great deal on its origins and its upbringing. – Linda Johnson-Bell

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art. – Robert Mondavi

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine. – Ernest Hemingway

Never drink boring wine. – Keith Wallace

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

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. – Francis Bacon

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water. – Victor Hugo

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

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. – Oscar Wilde

The best way to learn about wine is in drinking. – Alexis Lichine

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. – Marty Rubin

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. – Thomas Love Peacock

The more he drank the nicer he became; wine revealed his charity. – Jeet Thayil

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. – James Branch Cabell

The simplest definition of a great bottle of wine is when you feel sad because the bottle is empty. – Tony Margiotta

The wine cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell. – William Shakespeare

There are many wines that taste great but do not drink well. – Michael Broadbent

There is a wine in eternal love! – Fahad Basheer

There is no wine so sweet as wine taken from a foe. – George R.R. Martin

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

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. – Mark Twain

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. – Ovid

When we drink wine we come together, we are in communion with each other, and that is an ancient ritual. – Trudie Styler

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. – James Joyce

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone. – Thomas Jefferson

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books. – Stephen Fry

Wine can be a better teacher than ink. – Stephen Fry

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. – Homer

Wine cheers the sad revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil. – Lord Byron

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. – Ovid

Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors. – Adam Gopnik

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. – Thomas Fuller

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism. – Katherine Cole

Wine is a great investment … if you don’t drink it. – Vicki Denig

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 is a story that gives birth to stories, and man, a story-telling animal. – Neel Burton

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with. – Euripides

Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary. – Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra

Wine is bottled poetry. – Erin Morgenstern

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin

Wine is earth’s answer to the sun. – Margaret Fuller

Wine is for sharing. What’s the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can’t join in? – Jennifer Rosen

Wine is just a conversation waiting to happen. – Jessica Altieri

Wine is like the incarnation–it is both divine and human. – Paul Tillich

Wine is liquid stardust. – Terri Guillemets

Wine is older than history. Humans didn’t invent wine. We discovered it. – Philip Seldon

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

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

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

Wine is the thinking person’s health drink. – Dr. Phillip Norri

Wine knows that having a passion for life is an art itself. – Talismanist Giebra

Wine makes a man act like an ass in a rich pasture. – Babur

Wine makes a symphony of a good meal. – Fernande Gar

Wine makes all things possible. – George R. R. Martin

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

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. – Andre Simon

Wine rejoices the heart of man, and joy is the mother of all virtues. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wine spreads poetry in the hearts. – Dante

WINE! Because these problems aren’t going to forget themselves! – Tanya Masse

Wisdom is like a fermented wine. It’s only appreciated when shared. – Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

With wine, ideas flow without ideas wine flows. – Michele Jennae

You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster. – Dominic Riccitello

PROVERBS

A cup of wine is a medicine; a gallon of wine is ruin. ~ Korean proverb
A good bottle of wine does not need a cork. ~ French Proverb
After the rain the grass will grow; after wine, conversation. ~ Swedish Proverb
Bread and wine start a banquet. ~ French Proverb
Drink wine, and have gout; drink no wine, and have gout too. ~ Traditional Proverb
Fire tests metal, wine tests men. ~ Japanese proverb
Good wine makes good blood. ~ Italian proverb
Good wine makes men’s hearts rejoice. ~ Roman proverb
If you have money and wine, your friends will be many. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine. ~ Proverb
Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best. ~ Polish Proverb
Pretty wife, old wine – many friends. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
The man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man. ~ Japanese proverb
To a man wine is like water is to the boat; it can carry him or guzzle him up. ~ Thai Proverb
Vodka is the aunt of wine. ~ Russian Proverb
Wine and wealth change wise men’s manners. ~ English proverb
Wine bears no blame – only the drunkard. ~ Russian Proverb
Wine makes old wives wenches. ~ English proverb
Wine wears no breeches. ~ English proverb
With bread and wine, you can walk your road. ~ Spanish Proverb
Without bread and wine, love goes hungry. ~ Latin Proverb
Women and wine rid a man of his common sense. ~ Spanish Proverb