Our favorite wine quotes and wine words
"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."
-Ernest Hemingway.
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"
Edward FitzGerald 1809 - 1883
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, st. 12
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
- Benjamin Franklin
"The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations."
--- French proverb
"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile."
- Homer
"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."(Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang / Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebelang,)
--Martin Luther, 1777
“Go,eat your food with gladness,and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what you do.”
-Ecclesiastes 9:7
"I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens."- Thomas Jefferson
“In vino veritas.” (In wine there is truth.)
"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."
-Ernest Hemingway.
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"
Edward FitzGerald 1809 - 1883
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, st. 12
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
- Benjamin Franklin
"The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations."
--- French proverb
"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile."
- Homer
"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."(Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang / Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebelang,)
--Martin Luther, 1777
“Go,eat your food with gladness,and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what you do.”
-Ecclesiastes 9:7
"I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens."- Thomas Jefferson
"Come quickly! I am tasting stars!"
- Dom Perignon (1638-1714) at his first sip of champagne
- Dom Perignon (1638-1714) at his first sip of champagne
"The Spirit of Wine
Sang in my glass, and I listened
With love to his odorous music,
His flushed and magnificent song."
- William Ernest Henly
Sang in my glass, and I listened
With love to his odorous music,
His flushed and magnificent song."
- William Ernest Henly
"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."
- Galileo Galilei
- Galileo Galilei
“In vino veritas.” (In wine there is truth.)
– Pliny, the Elder, 23-79 A.D.
“I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.”
- W. C. Fields
- W. C. Fields
” 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
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine."
- Ben Jonson (1573–1637) To Celia
Con pan y vino se anda el camino
(With bread and wine you can walk your road)
- Spanish Proverb
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy. - Benjamin Franklin
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine."
- Ben Jonson (1573–1637) To Celia
Con pan y vino se anda el camino
(With bread and wine you can walk your road)
- Spanish Proverb
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy. - Benjamin Franklin
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