Wine And Spirits Quotes
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It has passed into a proverb, that wisdom is overshadowed by wine. (Quote by - Pliny the Elder)
Light wines--nothing so treacherous. They inflame the brain like fire while melting on the palate like ice. All inhabitants of light-wine countries are quarrelsome. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. (Quote by - Homer)
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Wine is bottled poetry. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
You cannot know wine by the barrell. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. (Quote by - Bible)
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage. (Quote by - Joseph Hall)
Wine-drinking is the mother of all mischief, the root of crimes, the spring of vices, the whirlwind of the brain, the overthrow of the sense, the tempest of the tongue, the ruin of the body, the shame of life, the stain of honesty, and the plague and corruption of the soul. (Quote by - Saint Aurelius Augustine)
Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)
You often hear the remark that "there is no harm in a glass of wine per se." Per se means by itself. Certainly there is no harm in a glass of wine by itself. Place a glass of wine on a shelf and let it remain there, and it is per se, and will harm no one. But if you take it from the shelf and turn it inside a man, then it is no longer per se. (Quote by - George Washington Bain)
The hop for his profit I thus do exalt, It strengthened drink, and it favoureth malt: And being well brewed, long kept it will last, And drawing abide--if you draw not too fast. (Quote by - Thomas Tusser)
Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)
Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen. (Quote by - Charles Forbes Montalembert)
Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter fruit. (Quote by - Omar Khayyam)
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. (Quote by - Tosafot)
This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. (Quote by - Plautus)
Wine, though it possesses good qualities, was forbidden by the prophet, because it attacked reason. (Quote by - Sa'd b. Muhammad Hais Bais)
Thou shalt not drink wine of anything that will intoxicate. (Quote by - Buddhist Commandment)
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain, - Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Quote by - Pliny the Elder)
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart. (Quote by - Bible)
When the wine's in, murder will out. (Quote by - The Talmud)
It (wine)
produces most of the bad effects of ardent spirits, as misused in our country, and is perhaps more insidious. (Quote by - Horatio Greenough)
Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares. (Quote by - Horace)
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup;... at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. (Quote by - Proverbs)
Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality. (Quote by - Edward Parsons Day)
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 things. (Quote by - Pliny the Elder)
Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink. (Quote by - Ovid)
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. (Quote by - Homer)
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. (Quote by - Homer)
We care not for money, riches, nor wealth; Old sack is our money, old sack is our wealth. (Quote by - Thomas Randolph)
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another. (Quote by - Laertius Diogenes)
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. (Quote by - Omar Khayyam)
Filled with the wine Of the vine Benign That flames so red in Sansavine. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames. (Quote by - Richard Lovelace)
Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink. (Quote by - Richard Henry Stoddard)
I hold to the utter abandonment of the use as a beverage of distilled and fermented liquors of every sort, especially of wines, whether having much or little alcohol in them. (Quote by - Eliphalet Nott)
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. (Quote by - Bernard De Voto, in "Harper's Magazine")
The conscious water saw its God and blushed. (Quote by - Richard Crashaw)
In my interview with the king of the French, he stated expressly that the drunkenness of France was occasioned by wine. (Quote by - Edward Cornelius Delavan)
John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Sparkling and bright, in liquid light, Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in. (Quote by - Charles Fenno Hoffman)
The use of wine is quite superfluous to man. It is constantly followed by the expenditure of power. The drinker draws a bill on his health which must always be renewed. (Quote by - Baron Justus von Liebig)
The produce of the vineyards has not failed everywhere, Ovidius. The heavy rains have been productive. Coranus made up a hundred jars by means of the water. (Quote by - Martial)
Wine is a cunning wrestler. (Quote by - Plautus)
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology. (Quote by - Abraham Coles)
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. (Quote by - Pliny the Elder)
Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals. (Quote by - Francois de Salignac Fenelon)
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently, and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. (Quote by - Homer)
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids! (Quote by - William Cowper)
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. (Quote by - Bible)
Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company. (Quote by - Barry Cornwall)
A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. (Quote by - Ian Fleming)
It wasn't the wine, murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon." (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape, Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. (Quote by - John Milton)
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush. (Quote by - John Lyly)
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through Under the Andes to the Cape, Suffered no savor of the earth to escape. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Give me a bowl of wine. In this I bury all unkindness. Cassius. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell. (Quote by - Syrus)
Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth. (Quote by - John Keats (1)
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If with water you fill up your glasses, You'll never write anything wise; For wine is the horse of Parnassus, Which hurries a bard to the skies. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, and then an enemy. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
It's been a long time since I've had champagne. (Quote by - Anton Pavlovich)
Wine is like anger; for it makes us strong, Blind and impatient; and it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; we feel the error long. (Quote by - George Crabbe)
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. (Quote by - Julius Caesar)
Drinking of wine maketh men to act like so many furies. (Quote by - Nathaniel Morton)
O Roman punch! O potent Curacoa! O Maraschino! Maraschino O! Delicious drams! Why have you not the art To kill this gnawing Book-worm in my heart? (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie. (Quote by - W.A. Bellamy)
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 an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. (Quote by - Richard Lovelace)
No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
Although it is better to hide our ignorance, this is hard to do when we relax over wine. (Quote by - Heraclitus of Ephesus)
I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself. (Quote by - Robert Allott)
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man. (Quote by - Bible)
There is a devil in every berry of the grape. (Quote by - Koran)
But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine, Which is the mermaid's now, but shall be mine. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Wine and youth are fire upon fire. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
The use of wine must inevitably be a stepping-stone to that of stronger drinks and to intemperance. (Quote by - John Calvin Holbrook)
Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness. (Quote by - Rachel Russell)
That is a treacherous friend whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
And must I wholly banish hence These red and golden juices, And pay my vows to Abstinence, That pallidest of Muses? (Quote by - Sir William Watson (2))
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Wine often turns the good-natured man into an idiot and the choleric into an assassin. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take the righteousness of the righteous from him! (Quote by - Bible)
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. (Quote by - Bible)
Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
