Wine quotes

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.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

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.

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.

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.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.