Wine Quotes

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Wine is a cunning wrestler. — Plautus
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all… — Pliny the Elder
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny the Elder
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . .… — Francois Fenelon
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. — William Shakespeare
Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. — William Shakespeare
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into… — Joseph Addison
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. — Charles Dickens
Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink. — Unknown Author
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of… — Richard Crashaw
If the wine is not good, then throw it out! — Michelangelo
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine… — Walter Raleigh
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. — George Herbert
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I… — George Herbert
You cannot know wine by the barrell. — George Herbert
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. — George Herbert
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted. — Ben Jonson
Wine and youth are fire upon fire. — Henry Fielding
O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear… — John Milton
O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine! — Helen Hunt Jackson
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. — Homer
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. — Homer
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage. — Joseph Hall

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