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Quotes About Wine

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.
~ Joe Bastianich
Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Before garden, vine or grape was in the world, " writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.
~ Idries Shah, The Sufis
He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Martin Luther
I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women.
~ Gannicus
Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
~ Gina Barreca
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
~ Naomi Watts
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
~ Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
~ John Stuart Blackie
Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.
~ Madame de Pompadour
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
~ Martin Luther
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
~ Helen Rowland
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
~ Ovid
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
~ Mark Twain
Beer is made by men, wine by God.
~ Martin Luther
Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
~ Plato
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!
~ Rumi
When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
~ Plato
Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
~ Helen Rowland
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.
~ Tom Jones
Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.
~ Edna Ferber
Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties, they'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine.
~ Terri Guillemets