At The Best You we were thinking about the things that make life fun and enjoyable. One of the constants that we agreed so many people enjoy is wine.
For celebrations, parties, mingling and chatting, wine is one of the drinks that draws people together for fun and laughter.
Here are 24 quotes from some of the great writers and thinkers of the past, about what wine meant to them.
1. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin
2. One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson
3. Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. – Joan Collins
4. 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. – Francis Bacon
5. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. – Plautus
6. What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. – Diogenes
7. 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. – Carl Jung
8. Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. – M. F. K. Fisher
9. There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller’s being. – Patrick MacGill
10. Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII
11. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. – W. C. Fields
12. Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. – Isak Dinesen
13. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. – Thomas Moore
14. Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. – Judith Viorst
15. Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson
16. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. – Aristophanes
17. My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn’t due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. – Gary Vaynerchuk
18. I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved. – Rose Kennedy
19. We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. – Eduardo Galeano
20. I’d rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them .What’s the good of living if you can’t have the things that give a little enjoyment? – Jack LaLanne
21. All four elements were happening in equal measure – the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level. – Charlie Trotter
22. In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine. – Robin Leach
23. I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith
24. Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. – Gina Barreca
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