Wine

In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart. – German proverb

Bacchus scatters devouring cares. – Horace

Fine wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die. – Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck, Mastering the Art of French C

The flavour of wine is like delicate poetry. – Louis Pasteur

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly [a bottle] that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life. – Neil deGrasse Tyson, quoted in The Wine Spectator, 2000 May 31st

Life is a chaplet of little miseries, which the philosopher unstrings with a smile. Be philosophers as I am, gentlemen; sit down to the table and let us drink; nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin. – Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844), “Chapter XLVII: A Family Affair,”

A vine bears three bunches of grapes. The first, the bunch of pleasure; the second, that of drunkenness; the third, that of disgust. – Anacharsis (early 6th century BCE), paraphrase by Diogenes LaÃ«rtius (3rd C. CE)

Wine speaks to all the senses: the eyes behold the color, tone and shade; the nose, the bouquet; the fingers and lips caress the cool crystal; the ears delight in the subtle swishing of the liquid; the tongue rejoices in the reward of a rich harvest. – Mary Lou Collins Posch

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

For not only is taste in wine as subjective as taste in women, but its enjoyment depends more on circumstances than does that of almost any other pleasure. – Cyril Ray (1908–1991), “The Wine when it is Red,” In a Glass Lightly, 1967

Wine is a turn-coat, first a friend, then an enemy. – French proverb

There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom. – Terri Guillemets

When wine enters modesty departs. – Italian Proverb

Wine in, truth out. – English proverb

You put it in new words, but it is an old thought. This is one of the disadvantages of wine. It makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson, 1778, quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine. – Proverb

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Italian proverb

A drunken man is fitly named: he has drank, till he is drunken: the wine swallows his consciousness, and it sinks therein. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

When wine sinks, words swim. – English proverb

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside; “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, A Handbook of Gastronomy (Physiologie du goÃ»t), 1825,