In a couple of previous posts, on Interesting wine quotes from famous people and Quotes from famous people about wine and its role in our lives, I collated six dozen quotations from over the past three millennia. I tried to pick quotes that are cheering. Here I add another three dozen.
- “Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.” ― Heraclitus (6th century BC)
- “The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine.” ― Thucydides (c.460—c.400 BC)
- “Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.” ― Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC—17 AD)
- “the [head] pain ... is contracted ... by drinking wine” ― Aulus Cornelius Celsus (25 BC—50 AD)
- “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” ― Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207—1273)
- “Wine spreads poetry in the hearts.” ― Dante Alighieri (1265—1321)
- “He who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long.” ― Martin Luther (1483—1546)
- “Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.” ― Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim; 1493—1541)
- “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.” ― Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
- “Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.” ― William Shakespeare (1564—1616) [Othello, Act II, Scene iii]
- “Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.” ― Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
- “Wine gives a man nothing … it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.” ― Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
- “I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.” ― Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
- “A meal without wine is like a day without sun.” ― Jean Anthelme Brillat−Savarin (1755—1826)
- “Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory — but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte (1769—1821)
- “A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
- “Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” ― Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens; 1835—1910)
- “A full glass of wine at the proper moment is worth more than all the riches of the world.” ― Gustav Mahler (1860—1911)
- “Champagne is the wine of civilisation … the oil of government.” ― Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
- “His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine.” ― E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894—1962)
- “Wine and friends are a great blend.” ― Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961)
- “Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.” ― Leon Adams (1905—1995)
- “Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.” ― Robert Mondavi (1913—2008)
- “It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desire. Indeed it will, in a dull man.” ― John Osborne (1929—1994)
- “You have only so many bottles in your life; never drink a bad one.” ― Len Evans (1930—2006)
- “My wines make weak men strong, and strong women weak.” ― Wolfgang Blass (1934— )
- “A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.” ― Kathy Matteas (1959— )
- “We live in an age of beautifully packaged wines with superbly exaggerated stories and prices.” ― Andrew Caillard (1959— )
- “Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it’s our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you’d like to have dinner with.” ― Jill Shalvis (1963— )
- “I always love being in the company of women. It’s all about good conversation and great wine.” ― Naomi Watts (1968— )
- “Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.” ― José Andrés (1969— )
- “Next time you drink a glass of champagne, remember that it is
essentially a faulty wine from an unpromising place, made great by the
genius of man.” ― Neel Burton (1978— )
- “Champagne is appropriate for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.” ― Madeline Puckette (1984— )
- “Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.” ― Steve Lacy (1998— )
- “A meal without wine is called Breakfast.” ― Anonymous
- “After the rain the grass will grow; after wine, conversation.” ― Swedish proverb
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