Quotes About Wine

In Vino Veritas. The classy thing to say when you've had too much to drink and have just said something that is decidedly not classy, in vino veritas has been employed as a mea culpa of sorts for thousands of years. In the first century AD, Pliny the Elder referred to the "common proverb that in wine, there is truth in vino veritas."

Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can change, and wine to accept the things that I can't.

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.

There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom.

Wine is how classy people get wasted.

A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.

I carried away much wine, and the wine had previously carried away my memory; so that all was hiccup and happiness for the last hour or so...

Man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man.

Wine and wealth change wise men's manners.

And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Wine has drowned more men than the sea.

When wine has given indecent language birth, And forced the flood-gates of licentious mirth...

Good wine makes men's hearts rejoice.

Good wine makes good blood.

Wine wears no breeches.

Wine makes old wives wenches.

Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.

Some of his blood splattered into Munita's glass of wine. I didn't tell her. She was having red anyway.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. … I only know two types of wine — red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries — industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness.

Like with wine?" Poppy was intrigued. "It's not a book club if there isn't wine.

She was in a book club?" said Poppy. "Everyone's in a book club." "Like with wine?" Poppy was intrigued. "It's not a book club if there isn't wine.

When it was their turn to cook, she and Penn made elaborate, delicate dishes, too rich, too complicated, too expensive to waste on the everyday, to waste on the kids. They used their good china. They drank expensive wine.

Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!