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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
Sep 29, 2025
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.
By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
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.
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.
Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.
'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
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.
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!
I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.
I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
Where there is no wine there is no love.
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
Wine makes every meal an occasion.
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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.
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! 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.
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.