wine

"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."

"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better."

"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."

"Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!—Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things."

"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."

"I love everything that 's old,—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

"I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself."

"Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good; "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried: He drank the poison, and his spirit died."

"Old Simon the cellarer keeps a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie."

"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."

"So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven, And all the passengers he bore Were on the new world set ashore, He made it next his chief design To plant and propagate a vine, Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd Far greater numbers, on dry ground, Of wretched mankind, one by one, Than all the flood before had done."

"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."

"Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels."

"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."

"The conscious water saw its God and blushed."

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."

"When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another.""

"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."

"From wine what sudden friendship springs?"

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

"If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by and by, Or any other reason why."

"O for a Bowle of fatt Canary, Rich Palermo, sparkling Sherry, Some Nectar else, from Juno’s Daiery, O these draughts would make us merry."

"What care I, love, for what the Sufis say? The Sufis are but drunk another way; So you be drunk, it matters not the means, So you be drunk—and glorify your clay. Drunken myself, and with a merry mind, An old man passed me, all in vine leaves twined; I said, “Old man, hast thou forgotten God?” “Go, drink yourself,” he said, “for God is kind.” “Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think, And at the same time make it sin to drink? Give thanks to HIM who foreordained it thus— Surely HE loves to hear the glasses clink!”"

"It is said that during the time of the Imams, certain close followers [had] secretly gathered for spiritual brotherhood rituals in which wine was consumed in a sacred context. These gatherings have been compared to the Last Supper of Jesus, involving a symbolic and spiritually charged drink. … If wine is a “Servant of Light,” then it reveals both the light and the darkness within us."

"And the vine said unto them, Shoult I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?"

"And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles."

"In nothing have the habits of the palate more decisive influence than in our relish of wines."

"And now, my children, I pray you, do not intoxicate yourselves with wine, for wine twists the understanding away from the truth, and confuses the sight of the eyes. Wine led me astray, so that I felt no shame before the throngs of people in the city, and I turned aside and went in to Tamar in the presence of them, and committed a great sin. And though a man be a king, if he leads an unchaste life, he loses his kingship. I gave Tamar my staff, which is the stay of my tribe, and my girdle-cord, which is power, and my signet-diadem, which is the glory of my kingdom. I did penance for all this, and unto old age I drank no wine, and ate no flesh, and knew no sort of pleasure. Wine causes the secret things of God and man to be revealed unto the stranger. Thus did I disclose the commands of the Lord and the mysteries of my father Jacob to the Canaanite woman Bath-shua, though God had forbidden me to betray them. I also enjoin you not to love gold, and not to look upon the beauty of women, for through money and through beauty I was led astray to Bath-shua the Canaanite. I know that my stock will fall into misery through these two things, for even the wise men among my sons will be changed by them, and the consequence will be that the kingdom of Judah will be diminished, the domain that the Lord gave me as a reward for my obedient conduct toward my father, for never did I speak in contradiction of him, but I did all things according to his words."

"At the third cup, wine drinks the man."

"So, I called up the Captain: "Please bring me my wine." He said: "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.""

"My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!"

"Youth is intoxication without wine. ("Jugend ist Trunkenheit ohne Wein.")."

"And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard."

"Before man drinks of it, he is innocent as a lamb; if he drinks of it moderately, he feels as strong as a lion; if he drinks more of it than he can bear, he resembles the pig; and if he drinks to the point of intoxication, then he behaves like a monkey, he dances around, sings, talks obscenely, and knows not what he is doing."

"We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!"

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?"

"I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink; that's the one thing I'm indebted to her for."

"Once... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days."

"Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what you do."

"I rather like bad wine … one gets so bored with good wine."

"A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell."

"Wine in, truth out."

"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!"

"To me wine is just so much spoiled fruit juice."

"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after."

"A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. 'Much obliged,' said he, pushing the dish away from him, 'but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in pills.'"

"Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them."

"Tell me what you drink, and I will tell you what you are"

"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."