Quotes on Old Wine

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

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

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

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.

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.

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

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

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

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

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.