Monday, May 21, 2007

Wine Quotes

Here are some interesting quotes on wine.

Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.
---Medieval German saying

Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.
---Spanish saying

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
---Aristophanes

"Good wine is a necessity of life for me."
---Thomas Jefferson

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
---Euripides

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one's present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason.
---Latin saying

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it well used.
---Shakespeare

Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
---Benjamin Franklin

No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.
---Plato

God made only water, but man made wine.
---Victor Hugo

Wine is bottled poetry.
---Robert Louis Stevenson

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