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For when the wine is in, the wit is out. ~ Thomas Becon Grapes are the most noble and challenging of fruits. ~ Malcolm Dunn Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. ~ William Shakespeare After-dinner talk across the walnuts and the wine. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson A man not old, but mellow, like good wine. ~ Stephen Phillips Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French. ~ John Masefield Veni Vidi Vici Vino! [I came, I saw, I conquered Wine] ~ Lori Lapides Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play. ~ Johnny Mercer Fill high the cup with Samian wine! ~ Lord Byron Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, an' fill it in a silver tassie. ~ Robert Burns And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'. ~ G.K. Chesterton The wine they drink in Paradise they make in Haute Lorraine. ~ G.K. Chesterton Wino Forever. ~ Johnny Depp The smell of wine, oh how much more delicate, cheerful, gratifying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil. ~ Rabelias Gargantua Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. ~ Samuel Johnson If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? ~ Cardinal Richeleu Wine and wenches empty men's purses. ~ English Proverb Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after. ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. ~ 1 Timothy, 5:23 Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away. wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars. ~ Wycherly Wine ... cheereth God and man. ~ Judges, 9:13 Wine is bottled poetry. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine. ~ Shakespeare Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach. ~ Spanish saying The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations. ~ French proverb I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. ~ Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen. ~ Anon French Proverb He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long. ~ Martin Luther, 1777 God made only water, but man made wine. ~ Vixtor Hugo, 1856 Blessed is the fruit of the Vine. ~ Jewish Prayer Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. ~ Louis Pasteur What though youth gave love and roses age still leaves us friends and wine. ~ Thomas Moore Up to the age of forty eating is beneficial. After forty, drinking. ~ The Talmud, 200BC Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler. ~ Titus Maccius Wine that maketh glad the heart of man. ~ The Book of Psalms How much better is thy love than wine! ~ The Song of Solomon Like the best wine . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. ~ The Song of Solomon Over the wine-dark sea. ~ Homer Wine is a peep-hole on a man. ~ Alcaeus It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. ~ Heraclitus In vino veritas [In wine is truth]. ~ Proverb quoted by Plato I am falser than vows made in wine. ~ William Shakespeare From wine what sudden friendship springs! ~ John Gay Who does not love wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long. ~ Johann Heinrich Voss What though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine. ~ Thomas Moore Con pan y vino se anda el camino [With bread and wine you can walk your road]. ~ Anonymous: Spanish Proverb Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ~ Ovid Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. ~ Aristophanes Hey Man, I'm drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays. ~ Donald Sutherland Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~ Robert Fripp Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope. ~ Austin O'Malley In water one sees one's own face; But in wine, one beholds the heart of another. ~ An Old Frech proverb Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of care. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson You can have too much champagne, but you can never have enough. ~ Elmer Rice