Quotes on Best Wine

[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.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

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.

In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Language is wine upon the lips.

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.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.