Wine proverbs

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◆ I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W.C. Fields99

◆ Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

- John Keats99

◆ Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

- Rumi99

◆ it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

- Kenny Chesney99

◆ I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn't it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ 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 Hemingway99

◆ 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.

- Colette99

◆ 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 Hemingway99

◆ I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.

- Rachel Hawkins99

◆ Beer is made by men, wine by God.

- Martin Luther99

◆ I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

- Oliver Goldsmith99

◆ 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 Brand99

◆ 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 Hitchens99

◆ Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

- Louis Pasteur99

◆ My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

- Charles Bukowski99