Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. Wine is bottled poetry. 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. We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born.

Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. Language is wine upon the lips. I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice. What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over for cheese and wine and go shopping in my wardrobe. They especially love it when they get stuff with a tag still on. Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it. I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent. 'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking. But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers. Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level. The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, French fries, and mashed potatoes.

Unable to cook, I relied on people taking me out.what red wine with fish Quote Of The Daysweet red wine meaning Quote Of The Day Feedsbeer and wine history Javascript and RSS feeds Quote of the Day Email 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 next »Since the earliest civilization’s roamed the earth, a hardy glug of wine has been a dependable precursor to some history’s most brilliant (and brilliantly dumb) utterances. Successful lines of immortalized grape-speak have come from the most prolific drinkers of the stuff—from Thomas Jefferson to Henny Youngman, wine has inspired an array of ideas on the subject (and it even pushed Noah to “uncover” himself when drunk on the stuff, roaming the arc aimlessly). Beyond the incredibly funny Paul Masson outtakes with a drunk Orson Welles (he drank the wine way before it was time), you’ll delight in some unexpected wine-minded quotes from actors, poets, authors, and politicians.

And with Labor Day celebrations around the corner, you’ll be the scholarly comedian keeping the family BBQ upbeat by unleashing a few of these quips to whomever is flipping burgers. Make sure a glass of American red, white, or bubbly is in hand so that you can punctuate each pronouncement with an indulgent sip. Scroll down to read and memorize a few of our favorite wine-related quotes.U.S. President, author of The Declaration of Independence Thoughts on the matter: “No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.” Comedian, film star, cigar smoker Thoughts on the matter: “I shall drink no wine before it’s time! Thoughts on the matter: “I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Here’s the problem, when you’re stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you’re in command of million dollars worth of hardware.

So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it’s contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”  Thoughts on the matter: “I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.” Thoughts on the matter: “I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence…luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.”  Thoughts on the matter: Thoughts on the matter: “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.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink, I feel shame!

Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this wine, they might be out of work, and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, ‘It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.” Thoughts on the matter: “[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool—it drives the man to dancing… it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.”  Thoughts on the matter: “He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.”  Thoughts on the matter: “The funny thing is, wine is turning out to be a great investment. I couldn’t believe what happened with the value of my wine futures. I pinched myself and asked, ‘Did I just make more money on wine barrel futures than I did on the stock market?”

Thoughts on the matter: “I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.” Poet, author, Civil Rights activist Thoughts on the matter: “Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.” American author, kills people in pools Thoughts on the matter: “Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.” Comedian, writer, actor, banjo player Thoughts on the matter: “I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine.

I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I’d like to pay the bad wine price.” Thoughts on the matter: “I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I’m like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn’t matter which wine.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.”  Thoughts on the matter: “A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Doctor says to a man, ‘You’re pregnant!’ The man says, ‘How does a man get pregnant?’ The doctor says, ‘The usual way, a little wine, a little dinner….'” Philosopher, father of empiricism Thoughts on the matter: “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.” 

Supermodel, former French First Lady Thoughts on the matter: (While presiding over an auction) “At 200,000 euros, I’ll deliver the wine. At 250,000 euros, my husband [former president Nicolas Sarkozy] will deliver it with me.  Thoughts on the matter: “Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.” (Photo: The Sunday Times) Thoughts on the matter: “Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it’s not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behavior?”  Thoughts on the matter: “White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.” Astronomer, father of modern science Thoughts on the matter: “Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.” Thoughts on the matter: “Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.” 

Thoughts on the matter: “Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, I’m finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You’re not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.” (Photo: David Hyde Pierce Tumblr)Guy Who Doesn’t Drink Water Thoughts on the matter: “I like to think I’m a night person, because that’s my job, but now I’m a father of three. I’m trying to become more of a morning person. I don’t know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I’m bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.”  Thoughts on the matter: “Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine / Someone said take a poor man, the rich don’t have a dime / Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven’t got the time / I’ll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.” RELATED: The Best Quotes About Whiskey RELATED: The Best Quotes About Beer