Wine is how classy people get wasted. – Author Unknown
[A] hangover is the wrath of grapes. – Youngman 1987
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man. – Craig Claiborne, New York Times Cookbook
A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin. – Korean proverb
Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best. – Italian proverb
Fire tests metal, wine tests men. – Japanese proverb
Drink—wine dissipates sorrow! – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), “Of the Sentiments of
Man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man. – Japanese proverb
A bottle of wine is her autobiography: uncorked at birth, drunk to the last drop — an empty vessel all to show for it. – Terri Guillemets
Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long. – German Proverb
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down? – James A. McDougall
Wine wears no breeches. – English proverb
A good wine is like a gentle kiss, its effect throughout the meal is scintillatingly sensual in an elegantly understated way. – Frances Tabeek
Good wine makes good blood. – Italian proverb
Wine makes old wives wenches. – English proverb
Water for oxen, wine for kings. – Proverb
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local caf? to the speech at a formal dinner. – Roland Barthes
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You dont want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. – Ernest Hemingway
