Quotes on Good Wine

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

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

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.