Quotes on Wine

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

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

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.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

Had I but died an hour before this chance,_x000D_ _x000D_ I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,_x000D_ _x000D_ There's nothing serious in mortality:_x000D_ _x000D_ All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead;_x000D_ _x000D_ The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees_x000D_ _x000D_ Is left this vault to brag of.