Several years ago I had already collected many phrases about wine by famous people in an article, but today I want to bring it back with a more ordered and enriched look of many aphorisms about wine funny. If you are looking for wine quotes to write your dedications and greeting cards for winelovers I suggest you consult the index below to choose the topic as there are over 200 in this article wine aphorisms. I wish you to find the perfect wine phrase for you! And if you have any other wine quotes to suggest, you can write me a comment at the bottom of the page: I will be happy to enrich this collection so that it is available to all wine lovers! Index:
- Phrases about wine and love
- Phrases about wine and friendship
- Phrases about wine and war
- Phrases about wine and food
- Funny wine phrases
- Phrases about wine and women
- Poetic phrases about life and wine
- Phrases about the future and about wine
- Phrases about dreams and wine
- Phrases about health and about wine
- Phrases about wine and abstainers
- Historical phrases about wine
- Phrases about happiness and wine
- Generic wine aphorisms
Famous phrases about wine
1. Phrases about wine and love
1) “We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine”. Eduardo Hughes Galeano
2) "Unexpressed love is like wine kept in a bottle: it does not quench thirst". George Herbert
3) “The soft sound of a cork being uncorked from the bottle has the sound of a man opening his heart”. William S. Benwell
4) “I had dinner on a small piece of focaccia, but I greedily drank an amphora of wine; now the beloved lyre I gently touch and sing love to my tender girl ”. Anacreon
5) "Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love". Edmondo De Amicis
6) "Wine is similar to man: it will never be known to what extent it can be esteemed or despised, loved and hated, nor how many sublime actions or criminal acts it is capable of". Charles Baudelaire
7) "Wine prepares hearts and makes them more ready for passion". Ovidio
8) “Or even just leave a kiss in the cup, and I won't ask for wine”. Ben Jonson
9) “In the water you see your face; but in the wine, one sees the heart of another pass by ”. French proverb
10) “Wine prepares hearts and makes them more ready for passion: thoughts fade; in a lot of wine every penar fades away. " Publio Ovidio Nasone.
11) "A woman and a glass of wine satisfy every need, whoever does not drink and kisses is worse than dead". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12) "But between wine and love, I don't know what reasons for choice are: in my opinion, in order not to do wrong to things of equal value, I would say that it is better to choose one and the other than to choose none ". Lord Byron
13) "Here is the happiness of life, love and wine equally we must have near". Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
14) “I am beauty and love; I am friendship, your comfort; I am the one who forgets and forgives: the spirit of wine ”. William Ernest Henley
15) "Your love spreads its vigor throughout my being, like a wine". Paul Verlaine
16) “Wines that can be drunk especially with love are like beautiful women, different, mysterious and fickle, and every wine must be taken like a woman. He always begins by refusing with grace or rudeness, according to his temperament, and is granted only to those who aspire to her soul, as well as to her body. It will belong to the one who will discover it with delicacy ”. Luigi Veronelli
17) “And where there is no wine there is no love; nor any other delight do mortals have ”. Euripides
18) "Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love". Edmondo De Amicis
19) “Or even just leave a kiss in the cup, and I won't ask for wine”. Ben Jonson
20) "Unexpressed love is like wine kept in a bottle: it does not quench thirst". George Herbert
21) "His lips drink water, but his heart drinks wine."Edward estlin cummings
2. Phrases about wine and friendship
22) "Great is the luck of one who has a good bottle, a good book, a good friend". Molière
23) “When you are happy you drink to celebrate. When you are sad you drink to forget, when you have nothing to be sad or happy, you drink to make something happen ”. Charles Bukowski
24) “A bottle of wine implies sharing; I have never met a wine lover who was selfish ". Clifton fadiman
25) "I drink to make others interesting". George Jean Nathan
26) “Water divides men; wine unites them ". Libero bovio
27) “I like everything old; old friends, old times, old ways, old books, old wines ". Oliver Goldsmith
28) "Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love". Edmondo De Amicis
29) “Drink the wine since the cup is the face of the friend”. Mahmūd Shabistarī
30) "The miracle of wine consists in making man what he should never cease to be: man's friend ”. Ernst Engel
31) "By drinking men improve: they do good business, win causes, are happy and support friends". Aristophanes
32) “Wine and man make me think of two fighters who are friends of each other, who fight each other relentlessly and continually make peace. The vanquished always embraces the winner ". Charles Baudelaire
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3. Phrases about wine and war
33) “The only weapon I tolerate is a corkscrew”. Jean Carmet
34) “Water divides men; wine unites them ". Libero Bovio
4. Phrases about wine and cooking
35) "Drinking pure wine calms hunger". Hippocrates
36) "The wine has a mellow fullness that fills the palate and soul of flavor". Antonio Fogazzaro
37) “Pouring water into wine is minting false money”. Michel Bouvier
38) "A heavy drinker was offered grapes for dessert during lunch." Thank you, "he replied, pushing the plate away from him," but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in pills. "
(Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
39) "Wine is the milk of the old ". Plato
40) "Good wine ruins the bag. Bad wine is the stomach ". Spanish proverb
41) "Wine should be eaten, it's too good to just drink". Jonathan Swift
42) "Wine is the intellectual part of a meal, meat and legumes are nothing but the material part". Alexandre Dumas
43) “A meal without wine is like a day without the sun”. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
5. Funny wine phrases
44) "If wine were not an important thing, Jesus Christ would not have dedicated his first miracle to him"! Authorless
45) “Of course, God was truly generous to have given wine to man. If I had been God, I would have kept the prescription to myself. Théophile Gautier
46) “Jesus turned water into wine. I am not surprised that twelve disciples followed him everywhere ”. Coluche
47) "Quick, bring me a glass of wine, so I can wet my mind and say something clever." Aristophanes
48) “You are like wine: the older you get, the more you taste like a cork”. Luciana Littizzetto
49) “My books are like water, those of great talents are wine. Everyone drinks water ”. Mark Twain
50) "Let us remember that a bouquet of flowers is a very welcome gift, but a bottle of wine does not die after 6/7 days ". @alexa1163 (Twitter)
51) "If God didn't want us to drink, why did he make the wine so good? " Richelieu
52) "So does wine have a longer life than ours? But we, fragile humans, will avenge ourselves by swallowing it all. In wine there is life ”. Petronius Referee
6. Phrases about wine and women
53) "Whoever does not love wine and song for women is only a fool and not a saint". Arthur Shopenhauer
54) “We love young women, we drink aged wines”. Fragmentarius
55) “Without ceres and bacchus Venus is made of ice”. Publius Terentius
56) "A woman and a glass of wine satisfy every need, whoever does not drink and kisses is worse than dead". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
57) “I have ten tattoos, I think. The most famous is the one who said "Winona forever" when I was engaged to Winona Ryder. I had it changed to “Wino forever” (drunk forever), which seemed more suitable for me ”. Johnny Deep
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7. Poetic phrases about life and wine
58) "Language is the wine on the lips". Virginia Woolf
59) “Good wine is every time a symphony of four movements, performed to the rhythm of the seasons. The sun, the soil, the climate and the vines modulate the work, while the winemaker, as a soloist, gives his cadence ". Philippe Margot
60) “Wine and music were always the best corkscrews for me”. Anton Chekhov
61) “Fill your skull with wine before it fills with earth”. Nazim Hikmet
62) “In the glasses of my meditation I drink only […] of the blond wine; I drink it only with my eyes, closing them, and life passes like a distant sail ". Fernando Pessoa,
63) “How do you remember the taste of wine when the glass and its color are now lost”. Kahlil Gibran
64) “Life is so bitter, wine is so sweet; So why not drink? " Umberto Saba
65) "The wine of youth sometimes does not become clear with the passage of time, but cloudy". Carl Gustav Jung
66) “The bright wine on the palate lingered swallowed. Press grapes in the vat. The heat of the sun, that's what it is. It's like a secret caress that awakens memories ”. James Joyce
67) "A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world". Louis Pasteur
68) "The beauty of wine is that, for two hours, your problems belong to others". Pedro Ruiz
69) "Wine is one of the greatest signs of civilization in the world". Ernest Hemingway
70) “Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of wine”. Authorless
71) "Always ready for a new idea and an ancient wine". Bertold Brecht
72) "Wine loves me and seduces me only to the point where his and my spirit entertain each other in friendly conversation". Herman Hesse
73) “Good wine is every time a symphony of four movements, performed to the rhythm of the seasons. The sun, the soil, the climate and the vines modulate the work, while the winemaker, as a soloist, gives his cadence ". Philippe Margot
74) "Wine is bottled poetry". Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
75) "If we drink with temperance and in small sips, the wine drips into our lungs like the sweetest morning dew". Socrates
76) "Those red wine moments, time slowing down, unlikely words, many eyes and then laughing". Fabrizio Caramagna
77) "Three quarters of the moon and a quarter of wine sometimes divide time in a delightful way". Fabrizio Caramagna
78) “In the water you see your face; but in the wine, one sees the heart of another pass by ”. French proverb
8. Phrases about the future and about wine
79) “Nothing makes the future so rosy as contemplating it through a glass of Chambertin”. Napoleon Bonaparte
80) "We will immerse our thirsty souls in the restorative wine of the past". Mark Twain
81) “There is no one who knows the secret of the future. What you need is wine, love and rest as you please ". Omar Ḫayyām
9. Phrases about dreams and wine
82) "But what intoxication can the most famous wine give, if there isn't at least the tired shadow of a dream to receive it inside?" Corrado Govoni
83) “Hold the bottle towards the light; you will see that your dreams are always at the bottom ”. Rob Hutchison
84) "Wine is sometimes a dream staircase". Antonio Machado
85) "What you look for in wine: beauty, color, culture, pleasure and dream". G. Jacquenot
10. Phrases about health and about wine
86) “I enjoyed great health until old age, because every day since I remember I have consumed a bottle of wine, except when I have not felt well. So I consumed two bottles ". Bishop of Seville
87) “Wine is for the soul what water is for the body”. Mario Soldati
88) “Wine is the healthiest and most hygienic of beverages”. Louis Pasteur
89) “A study underlines that wine is good for the heart. I can confirm, because after a few drinks I love everyone ". Anonymous
90) "Wine is a wonderfully appropriate thing for man if, in health as in illness, it is drunk with purpose and with measure, according to the individual constitution". Hippocrates
91) “Wine does not deserve to be demonized or sanctified. It is not a medicine, even if it is the origin of every medicine. Maybe it's more of a life lesson ”. Jacques Touchon
11. Phrases about wine and abstainers
91) “There is nothing wrong with sobriety in small doses”. John Ciardi
92) "No poem written by water drinkers can like or live long". Fifth Orazio Flacco
93) "Be temperate in drinking: too much wine does not keep secrets or keep promises". Miguel de Cervantes
94) “It is not true that a man changes by getting drunk. It's different when sober! " Thomas De Quincey
95) “Don't trust a person who doesn't love wine”. Karl Marx
96) "No one is more dangerous than a man without ideas, the day he has one he will give him to the head like wine to a teetotaler". Gilbert Keith Chesterton
97) "Who does not get drunk because of course he hates wine deserves the praise of sober"? Ugo Foscolo
98) "Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of girls, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts".John Stuart Blackie
99) “It is not true that a man changes by getting drunk. It's different when sober! " Thomas De Quincey
100) “The teetotaler: a weak person who gives in to the temptation to deny himself a pleasure”. Ambrose Bierce
12. Historical phrases about wine
1o1) “The land is worth as much as those who work it”. Marco Aurelio
102) "Drinking a glass of wine is like tasting a drop of the river of human history ”. Clifton fadiman
13. Phrases about happiness and wine
103) "Happiness, like a fine wine, must be savored sip by sip". Ludwig feuerbach
104) "Give me books, fruit, French wine, a good climate and some music outside the door, played by someone I don't know". John Keats
105) "But I believe that a lot of happiness goes to the men who are born where good wines are found". Leonardo Da Vinci
106) "Friends, a glass of wine, serenity, a corner in a flower garden ... I would not exchange this joy with any other present or future ". Hãfiz
14. Generic aphorisms about wine
107) "Be temperate in drinking: too much wine does not keep secrets or keep promises".Miguel de Cervantes
108) "Wine makes the wise foolish and the fool wise wise". Carlos Ruiz Zafón
109) "Wine is nothing other than sunlight mixed with the moisture of the vine". Galileo Galilei
110) "There are wines that are better than others, this is a fact: but there are wines that we loved one day because they were offered to us with great generosity". Pierre Sansot
111) "Wine can be a better teacher than ink". Stephen Fry
112) “When the wine comes in, strange things come out”. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
113) “Unlike fashion designers or car manufacturers, the winemaker remains at the mercy of nature. Since it is she who has the last word, the first lesson to be learned is that of humility ”. Henri Plouïdy
114) "Wine is a kind of inner laughter that for an instant makes the face of our thoughts beautiful". Henri de Régnier
115) "Wine is one of the greatest achievements of man who transformed a perishable fruit into something permanent". Jean Arlott
116) "The overwhelming power of wine penetrates man and spreads and distributes the ardor in the veins". Titus Lucretius Caro
117) "Man owes wine to be the only animal to drink without thirst". Pliny the Elder
118) "Wine, like flight, was invented so that my mind is elevated - to better see the world from above".
Fabrizio Caramagna
119) “The wonders of wine. In the space of a season it passes from the pure fire of the sun to the clear ruby color of the bottle ". Fabrizio Caramagna
120) "God placed the vineyard on the earth and the devil placed man beside me". Walter Scott
121) "Drinking wine is drinking genius". Charles Baudelaire
I hope I have helped you both if you were looking for funny phrases about drinking wine, and if you were looking for phrases for wedding wine labels. On purpose… do you know which are the 6 wines to which I said yes?
Cheers
Chiara