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Wine is a wonderful thing

• Wine is like the incarnation–it is both divine and human. Paul Tillich
• Wine is sunlight held together by water. Gallileo Gallilei
• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. William Shakespeare
• Savour life’s simple joys,  Savouring,  Food,  Dessert,  Pleasure

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Wine is one of the simple, good pleasures in life …

• The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain, great friends, good food and a descent bottle of wine. Blake Mycoskie
• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
• Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. Samuel Johnson
• He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper. Samuel Johnson
• Fill ev’ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous? John Gay 1685 – 1732
• Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. Chinese Proverb
• A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine. Ernest Hemingway
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… and greatly enriches life

• Wine is the sort of alcoholic beverage that does not destroy but enriches life; does not distort but clarifies perspective; does not seduce except in a way worth humanly being seduced.  Bill St. John
• Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends.  It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It’s the essence of civilisation and the heart of living.  Robert Mondavi

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Wine is the drink of the Gods

• Beer is made by men, wine by God. Martin Luther
• …wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin
• Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.  Plato
• God made only water, but man made wine. Victor Hugo
• Wine is the milk of the gods, milk the drink of the babies, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. John Stuart Blackie
• If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? Cardinal Richeleu
• Wine is like the incarnation–it is both divine and human. Paul Tillich

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Wine is bottled poetry

• Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson
• The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry. Louis Pasteur
• 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

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Wine is the essence of civilisation and culture

• Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing. Ernest Hemingway
• Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends.  It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It’s the essence of civilisation and the heart of living.  Robert Mondavi
• To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Clifton Paul Fadiman

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Wine speaks to all the senses

• 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 Posch
• The smell of wine, oh how much more delicate, cheerful, gratifying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil. Rabelias Gargantua
• … the odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man. Jerome K. Jerome
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Wine feeds the body, mind and soul

• Wine – it should be enjoyed for the benefits of the soul – and nothing more. Peter Fiduccia, Wine Lover
• Wine has been a part of civilized life for some seven thousand years. It is the only beverage that feeds the body, soul and spirit of man and at the same time stimulates the mind… Robert Mondavi
• If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. Clifton Fadiman
• Souls wouldn’t wear suits and ties, they’d wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. Terri Guillemets
• The body,  The mind,  The soul

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Wine brings many benefits

• Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It’s not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today’s Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn’t particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human. Christopher Hitchens
• Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away. Wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars. Wycherly, The Country Life
• If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night. H. Lawrence

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Wine unlocks happiness

• How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.  Nikos Kazantzakis
• You needn’t tell me that a man who doesn’t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Saki
• As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
• Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. Rumi
• Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. Alexander Fleming
• Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, Like a child at play. Johnny Mercer
• Wine … cheereth God and man. Judges, 9:13
• A man cannot make him laugh – but that’s no marvel; he drinks no wine. William Shakespeare
• Wine that maketh glad the heart of man. The Book of Psalms, 104:15
• Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. The Book of Proverbs
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Wine unlocks friendship and fellowship

• Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. Judith Viorst
• I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. Pablo Neruda
• There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost.  Ann Fairbairn
• Here’s to the corkscrew – a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly. W.E.P. French
• There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher
• In water one sees one’s own face; But in wine, one beholds the heart of another. An Old Frech proverb
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Wine unlocks laughter and merriment

• A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. Ecclesiastes; or The Preacher, 10:19
• The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. Homer, The Odyssey, bk. XIV, l. 463
• Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. Plautus
• 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. Washington Irving
• Laughter,  Fun

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Wine unlocks love and romance

• For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we’d eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we’d save some of the dessert and play with it while making out. Karen McDougal
• I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn’t it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit? Jarod Kintz
• His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine. E. Cummings
• How much better is thy love than wine! The Song of Solomon, 4:10
• Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may try a bout with love. Anacreon c. 570 – c. 480 B.C.
• It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!  Kenny Chesney
• The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. Marty Rubin
• You had me at Merlot.
• Love,  Romance

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Wine unlocks courage

• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. Ovid
• Fill ev’ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous? John Gay
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Wine unlocks wit

• Wine is a peep-hole on a man. Alcaeus c. 625 – c. 575 B.C.
• It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. Heraclitus c. 540 – c. 480 B.C.
• I am falser than vows made in wine. William Shakespeare
• Wine, wit and widsom. Wine enough to sharpen wit, Wit enough to give zest to wine, Wisdom enough to “shut down” at the right time.
• For when the wine is in, the wit it out. Thomas Becon
• Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. Homer
• Here’s to the corkscrew – a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly. W.E.P. French
• Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes

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Wine unlocks truth

• If wine tells truth, – and so have said the wise, – It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• In vino veritas – In wine there is truth. Pliny the Elder
• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. Graham Greene
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Wine unlocks confidence

• Wine makes a man more pleased with himself, I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Samuel Johnson
• I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water. Aimee Bender
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Wine is good for you

• If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly. Sandra Byrd, Bon Appetit
• Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. Louis Pasteur
• Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities. 1 Timothy, 5:23
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Wine makes living easier …

• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance. Benjamin Franklin
• Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin. Napoleon Bonaparte

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… washing away the cares of life …

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations — wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. Edmund Burke
• Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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… helping one to relax and unwind …

• We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless. Russell Brand
• At least once a day you should do something puresely for enjoyment, and wine is my way of relaxing.Young Uck Kim
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… relieving pain

• If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. Scott Lynch
• There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said Spider. “These things are wine, women and song.” “Curry’s nice too.” pointed out Fat Charlie” Neil Gaiman
• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery. Euripides c. 485 – 406 B.C.
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Wine is a great comfort in old age

• What though youth gave love and roses age still leaves us friends and wine. Thomas Moore
• Up to the age of forty eating is beneficial. After forty, drinking. The Talmud, 200BC

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Wine brings salvation

• Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved. Medieval German saying

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Wine is to be shared

• A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. Clifton Fadiman
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The making of wine is a great art

• Wine is a living thing. It is made, not only of grapes and yeasts, but of skill and patience. When drinking it remember that to the making of that wine has gone, not only the labor and care of years, but the experience of centuries. Allan Sichel
• Now wines are wonders; great wines are magical; and winemakers are mad. Like horse fanciers, they are always trying to improve the breed. William E. Massee
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Wine has a life cycle

• 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 wicken and die. Julia Child

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Wine is great to cook with

• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W.C. Fields
• In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. Bob Blumer
• Fish, to taste right, must swim three times -in water, in butter and in wine. Polish Proverb
• I tried cooking with wine. After 3 glasses, I forgot why I was in the kitchen.
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Nothing compliments a good meal better than wine

• A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. Kathy Mattea
• Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. Andre Simon
• A meal without wine is like a day without sun. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures. Michael Broadbent
• I haven’t had much luck in pairing red wine with lobster. Jasper White
• Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat. Mario Lemieux
• Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food. Francis Ford Coppola
• Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. Randgle Cotgrave
• Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine. Horace
• 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 De Grasse Tyson, Wine Collector
• A good wine is like a gentle kiss, its effect throughout the meal is scintillatingly sensual in an elegantly understated way. Frances Tabeek
• I just learned you’re supposed to pair wine with food. And here I am just pairing it with another bottle.
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Good wines get better with age

• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon
• I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. Oliver Goldsmith
• Which would you rather give up, wine or women? It depends on the vintage.
• Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
• Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. Charles Kingsley
• I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn’t have to wait for it to age. Steven Wright
• 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 De Grasse Tyson, Wine Collector
• Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things – old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon

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Not all wine tastes good

• You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. Mark Twain
• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. Peter Ustinov
• The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse. D. H. Lawrence
• I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. Benjamin Disraeli
• A German wine label is one of the things life’s too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation’s love of detail and organization.  Kingsley Amis
• Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach. Spanish saying
• The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations. French proverb

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Life is too short to drink bad wine

• Life’s too short to drink cheap wine… Cliff Hakim
• You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one. Len Evans
• I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. Benjamin Disraeli

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Thoughts on good wine

• I don’t go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody’s ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited. Richard Thaler
• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. William Shakespeare
• Good wine praises itself. Dutch Proverb
• A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach. Spanish saying
• To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. William F. Buckley
• It is is better for pearls to pass through the lips of swine than good wine to pass through the lips of the indifferent. Mark Luedtke

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Some killjoys argue that wine is the devil’s brew

• Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young. Jerome
• There is a devil in every berry of the grape. The Koran
• Poetry is devil’s wine. St. Augustine
• Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Bible

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Wine brings drunkenness

• One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. Charles Baudelaire
• Wine is how classy people get wasted.
• In France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking. Roland Barthes
• The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler. Titus Maccius, 190 BC

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Wine can be the wrath of grapes

• I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. Rumi
• It wasn’t the wine,” murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. It was the salmon.” Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870

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Wine can become an addiction

• There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option. Abigail Thomas
• Wine, it’s in my veins and I can’t get it out. Burgess Meredith
• Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content and sufficient champagne. Dorothy Parker
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Wine can bring about dreadful mischiefs

• Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. Samuel Pepys 1633 – 1703
• Some of the most dreadful mischiefs that afflict mankind proceed from wine; it is the cause of disease, quarrels, sedition, idleness, aversion to labor, and every species of domestic disorder. François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon

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Wine loosens the tongue …

• A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• One of the disadvanages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Samuel Johnson
• One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and – one talks about it. King Edward VII
• After working late one night, I drank a bottle of frisky Beaujolais and slipped into bed beside my lady love. By moonlight I pursed my lips and into her ear whispered, “moelleux, moelleux.” She bolted up, shouting, “What the hell is wrong with you? A.D. Livingston

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… and makes some spout rubbish

• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don’t respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself.  When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily.  You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant.  After that, watch out….  Kingsley Amis
• Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake. Leon Adams
• When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does – faked it. Art Buchwald

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Wine does not quench thirst

• The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. George Herbert

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Wine is a metaphor for tasting life, now rather than later

• Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. Paulo Coelho
• Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own…. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.  Charles Caleb Colton
• They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. Ernest Dowson
• Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill. Marty Rubin
• Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, Like a child at play. Johnny Mercer
• Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. George Herbert
• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. George Gordon Noel Byron
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Wine is a metaphor for happiness and joy

• Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. Rumi
• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? Kahlil Gibran
• There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don’t think all ecstasies are the same! Rumi
• Happiness,  Joy

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Wine is a metaphor for memories

• Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will. Freya Stark
• Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they’re pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet. Ellen Hopkins
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Wine is a metaphor for passion

• Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us…. It more than anything deprives us of the use of our judgment; for it raises a dust very hard to see through. Like wine, whose lees fly by being jogg’d, it is too muddy to drink. William Penn
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Wine is a metaphor for vengeance

• Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Charlotte Bronte

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Wine is a metaphor for solitude

• There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. Colette
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Wine is a metaphor for friendship

• I find friendship to be like wine; raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial. Thomas Jefferson
• Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus, 9:10
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Wine is a metaphor for possibility

• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. . . what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility! Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.  Soren Kierkegaard
• Wine makes all things possible. George R.R. Martin
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Wine is a metaphor for old age

• I am not old but mellow, like good wine. Stephen Phillips
• I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved. Rose Kennedy, on her 100th birthday
• Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Van Buren
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More wine metaphors

• Don’t wish for an easier life. Wish to be at your finest. Just as the finest, most expensive wine comes from the grape that can stand the greatest resistance, you too will grow in direct proportion to the resistance you can sustain. James Arthur Ray
• If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea. Alan Watts
• Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope. Austin O’Malley
• My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water. Mark Twain
• Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Robert Fripp
• Wedlock’s like wine – not properly judged of till the second glass. Ernest Jarrold
• Language is wine upon the lips. Virginia Woolf
• Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. Pope John XXIII
• Love is like wine. You know its good when it gets better with time.
• Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope. Austin O’Malley

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One remembers not the finest wines but those drunk in favorable surroundings

• The wines that one best remembers are not necessarily the finest that one has ever tasted, and the highest quality may fail to delight so much as some far more humble beverage drunk in more favorable surroundings. H. Warner Allen

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Thoughts on particular wines

• Sauvignon blanc bangs you in the mouth – like an old peasant with his wooden shoe … The sauvignon is the whipper- snapper. It’s not solid enough. It’s violent, it’s sharp, it bites, it cries, it’s like a ferocious dog you keep on a leash. Troisgros
• It was such an exquisite 1964 Bordeaux that one sip was more like inhaling a soft fragrance than imbibing a liquid. Ellen Eller
• “I’ve always been impressed by Washington State merlot. It just sort of jumped out of the glass at me…You just feel this is right: this is not an attempt at something, this is something. Jancis Robinson

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Thoughts on sweet wine

• I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you’re young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again. Sally Jessy Raphael
• The Americans have no liking for wine unless it is sweet. Gustave Koerner, 1833

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Thoughts on champagne

• Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired. Brigitte Bardot
• Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry…I get so emotional! I love champagne. Tina Turner
• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. Graham Greene
• Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen. Anon French Proverb
• Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content and sufficient champagne. Dorothy Parker
• The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse. D. H. Lawrence
• In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Champagne is appropriate for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Madeline Puckette
• My only regret in life is that I didn’t drink enough Champagne. Robert Noecker

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Thoughts on different wine for different people

• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Samuel Johnson
• Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen. French Proverb

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Thoughts on wine labels

• My book club reads only wine labels.
• Drink wine, not labels. Dr. Maynard Amerine
• A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience. Michael Broadbent
• You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. Mark Twain

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• My book club reads only wine labels.
• Fish, to taste right, must swim three times -in water, in butter and in wine. Polish Proverb
• Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I can’t.
• Great wine porn. Michael Steinberger
• I just learned you’re supposed to pair wine with food. And here I am just pairing it with another bottle.
• It is is better for pearls to pass through the lips of swine than good wine to pass through the lips of the indifferent. Mark Luedtke
• Coffee keeps me busy until its time to drink wine.
• Help yourself to a bottle of wine. They’re all empty. Jarod Kintz
• Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.
• I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.
• In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria. David Auerbach
• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W.C. Fields
• I don’t need an app that tells me how many calories I have burned. I need an app that tells me how many glasses of wine I have earned.
• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. Peter Ustinov
• I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn’t have to wait for it to age. Steven Wright
• In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. Benjamin Franklin
• It’s a naive wine without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption. James Thurber
• My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately, everybody drinks water. Mark Twain
• Souls wouldn’t wear suits and ties, they’d wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. Terri Guillemets
• This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.  Samuel Johnson
• Which would you rather give up, wine or women? It depends on the vintage.
• Wine is how classy people get wasted.
• Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka. Viktor Chernomyrdin
• You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. Mark Twain
• Either give me more wine or leave me alone. Rumi
• They say one glass of wine is good for you. They never said how many times to fill it.
• I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn’t it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit? Jarod Kintz
• It’s not sipping wine. It’s a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this. Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
• There’s a new wine I want to try. I heard about it through the grapevine. Jarod Kintz
• In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.
• It takes a lot of good beer to make great wine. Brian O’Donnell
• Champagne is appropriate for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Madeline Puckette
• The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. Benjamin Franklin, circa 1700s
• What wine goes with Captain Crunch? George Carlin
• If I ever go missing, I want my picture on a wine bottle instead of a milk carton. This way my friends will know I’m missing.
• Start your day with coffee, end your day with wine.
• Home is where the wine is.
• Wine and wenches empty men’s purses. English Proverb
• Wine a little. It’ll make you feel better.
• The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations. French proverb
• A good friend knows when to pour a glass of wine and talk it out. A great friend knows when to shut up and hand over the bottle.
• Last night sitting on the couch with my husband, I said “I love you.” He asked. “Is that you or the wine talking?”  I said, “It’s me talking to the wine.”
• It’s no longer “box wine.” The classy term is cardboardeaux
• Shopping list: milk, wine, eggs, wine, bread, wine …
• I enjoy a glass of wine each night for its health benefits. The other glasses are for my witty comebacks and flawless dance moves.
• Sorry for all those word posts last night. Apparently, wine hacked my account.
• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine? Isak Dinesen
• To me, drink responsibly means don’t spill the wine.
• A balanced meal is a glass of wine in each hand.
• You had me at Merlot.
• I tried cooking with wine. After 3 glasses, I forgot why I was in the kitchen.
• Only the first bottle is expensive. French proverb (After that, who cares?)
• Life is too short to drink bad wine.
• My only regret in life is that I didn’t drink enough Champagne. Robert Noecker
• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one’s present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason. Latin saying
• I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn’t know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret. Basil Fawlty, “Fawlty Towers”
• Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine
• Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content and sufficient champagne. Dorothy Parker
• A good man can make you feel sexy, strong and able to take on the whole world. Oh wait, sorry … that’s wine, wine does that.
• Wine does not make you fat, it makes you lean … (against tables, floors, walls and ugly people.)
• I intend to die in a tavern; let the wine be placed near my dying mouth, so that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, “God be merciful to this drinker!” Walter Mapes (c. 1140 – c. 1210)

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