"Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy."
Alexander Fleming.
"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."
Ernest Hemingway.
"For when the wine is in, the wit is out."
Thomas Becon (1512-1567) Catechism, 375.
"Come quickly! I am tasting stars!"
Dom Perignon, at his first sip of Champagne.
"Wino Forever."
Johnny Depp's tattoo, which once read 'Winona Forever'!
"Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it."
Anonymous.
"Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin."
Napoleon.
"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food!!"
Anonymous.
"When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking."
Alexis Lichine.
"And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard."
Genesis 9:20.
"Wine... the intellectual part of the meal."
Alexandre Dumas, 1873.
"I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles."
A Bishop of Seville Baron.
"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne."
John Maynard Keynes.
"I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles."
A Bishop of Seville Baron.
"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."
Pope John XXIII.
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch."
W. C. Fields.
"In victory, you deserve champagne, in defeat, you need it."
Napoleon.
"Reality is an illusion that occurs due to a lack of wine."
Anonymous.
"You haven't drunk too much wine if you can still lie on the floor without holding on."
Dean Martin.
"If a life of wine, women and song becomes too much, give up the singing."
Anonymous.
"I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half of wine each day and even treble it with a friend."
Thomas Jefferson.
"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance."
Benjamin Franklin.
"During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days."
Cuthbert J. Twillie (W.C. Fields) in My Little Chickadee, 1940.
"She gets to keep the chalet and the Rolls, I want the Montrachet."
Anonymous, Forbes Magazine, May 6, 1996.
"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others."
Samuel Johnson, April 28, 1778.