Wine And Age Quotes

Wine And Age Quotes by Samuel Johnson, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Benjamin Disraeli, Diogenes, Edward VII, Mark Twain and many others.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
A meal without wine is like a day without sun
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
Benjamin Disraeli
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
Diogenes
One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.
Edward VII
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.
Mark Twain
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.
Julia Child
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith
Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Joan Collins
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.
Michael Broadbent
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
Graham Greene
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
Galileo Galilei
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Clifton Fadiman