Several years ago I had already collected so many phrases on wine by celebrities in an article, but today I want to present it again in a tidier and more wine aphorisms fun. If you are looking for wine quotes to write your own dedications and greetings cards for winelovers, I suggest you consult the index below to choose your topic as there are over 200 in this article wine aphorisms. I hope you find the perfect wine quote 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 on wine and love
- Phrases on wine and friendship
- Phrases on wine and war
- Phrases on wine and food
- Funny wine phrases
- Phrases on wine and women
- Poetic sentences on life and wine
- Phrases on the future and wine
- Phrases on dreams and wine
- Health and wine sentences
- Phrases on wine and teetotalers
- Historical phrases on wine
- Sentences on happiness and wine
- Generic wine aphorisms
Famous phrases about wine
1. Phrases on wine and love
1) 'We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine'. Eduardo Hughes Galeano
2) 'Unspoken love is like wine kept in the bottle: it does not quench the 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 dined on a small piece of flatbread, but drank greedily from an amphora of wine; now the beloved zither I touch softly and sing love to my tender maiden'. Anacreon
5) 'Wine adds a smile to friendship and a sparkle to love'. Edmondo De Amicis
6) 'Wine is like man: you will never know to what extent you can esteem or despise, love and hate it, nor how many sublime deeds or criminal acts it is capable of'. Charles Baudelaire
7) 'Wine prepares hearts and makes them more ready for passion'. Ovid
8) 'Or even just leave a kiss in the cup, and I won't ask for wine'. Ben Jonson
9) 'In water, one sees one's own face; but in wine, one sees the heart of another'. French proverb
10) "It lends wine to the hearts and makes them more ready for passion: thoughts fade away; in the much wine all pain is tempered." Publius Ovidius Naso.
11) 'A woman and a glass of wine satisfy every need; he who does not drink and kiss is worse than dead'. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12) “But between wine and love, I wouldn't know which is the reason to choose: in my opinion, so as not to do injustice to things of equal value, I would say that it is better to choose one and the other, than to choose neither. Lord Byron
13) "Here is the happiness of life, Love and wine equally we must have near". Aleksandr Sergeevič 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) "Thy love spreads its vigour throughout my whole being, like a wine". Paul Verlaine
16) 'Wines drinkable above all with love are like beautiful women, different, mysterious and fickle, and every wine like a woman must be taken. It always begins by refusing with gentleness or rudeness, according to temperament, and is only granted to those who aspire to its soul, as well as its body. She will belong to the one who discovers her with delicacy'. Luigi Veronelli
17) 'And where there is no wine, there is no love; nor any other delight have mortals'. Euripides
18) 'Wine adds a smile to friendship and a sparkle 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) 'Unspoken love is like wine kept in the bottle: it does not quench the thirst'. George Herbert
21) "His lips drink water, but his heart drinks wine".Edward Estlin Cummings
2. Phrases on wine and friendship
22) 'Great is the fortune of him who possesses a good bottle, a good book, a good friend'. Molière
23) 'When you are happy drink to celebrate. When you are sad drink to forget, when you have nothing to be sad or happy about, 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 manners, old books, old wines'. Oliver Goldsmith
28) 'Wine adds a smile to friendship and a sparkle to love'. Edmondo De Amicis
29) "Drink the wine for the cup is the face of the friend". Mahmūd Shabistarī
30) “The miracle of wine is to make man what he should never cease to be: man's friend'. Ernst Engel
31) 'By drinking, men improve: they do good business, win cases, are happy and support their friends'. Aristophanes
32) 'Wine and man make me think of two wrestlers who are friends, who fight each other relentlessly and continually make peace. The vanquished always embraces the victor'. Charles Baudelaire
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3. Phrases on 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 on wine and cooking
35) 'Drinking pure wine calms hunger'. Hippocrates
36) 'Wine has a mellow fullness that fills palate and soul with flavour'. Antonio Fogazzaro
37) 'Putting water in wine is minting false currency'. Michel Bouvier
38) "A big drinker was offered grapes for dessert during lunch." Thank you,' he replied, pushing his 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 old men'. Plato
40) “Good wine ruins the purse. Bad wine spoils the stomach'. Spanish proverb
41) 'Wine should be eaten, it is too good just to be drunk'. Jonathan Swift
42) 'Wine is the intellectual part of a meal, meat and legumes are but the material part'. Alexandre Dumas
43) 'A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine'. 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 it'! Anonymous
45) "Of course, God was really generous to have given wine to man. If I were God, I would have kept the recipe for myself. Théophile Gautier
46) "Jesus turned water into wine. No wonder twelve disciples followed him everywhere". Coluche
47) 'Quick, bring me a glass of wine, so that I can wet my mind and say something intelligent'. Aristophanes
48) 'You are like wine: the older you get, the more corky you taste'. Luciana Littizzetto
49) 'My books are like water, those of great talents are wine. Everyone drinks water'. Mark Twain
50) “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 did not want us to drink, why did he make the wine so good?" Richelieu
52) “Does wine, then, have a longer life than we do? But we, frail human creatures, will take revenge by swallowing it whole. In wine is life'. Petronio Referee
6. Phrases on wine and women
53) 'He who does not love women wine and song, 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 ice'. Publius Terence
56) 'A woman and a glass of wine satisfy every need, he who does not drink and kiss is worse than dead'. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
57) "I have ten tattoos, I think. The most famous is the one that says 'Winona forever' from when I was engaged to Winona Ryder. I had it changed to 'Wino forever' (drunk forever), which seemed more appropriate for me'. Johnny Deep
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7. Poetic sentences about life and wine
58) 'Language is wine on the lips'. Virginia Woolf
59) 'Good wine is each 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 soloist, imparts 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 chalices of my meditation I drink only the [...] of blond wine; I drink it only with my eyes, closing them, and life passes like a distant sail'. Fernando Pessoa
63) 'How one remembers the taste of wine when the glass and its colour have been lost'. Kahlil Gibran
64) "Life is so bitter, wine is so sweet; so why not drink?" Umberto Saba
65) 'The wine of youth sometimes becomes not clear with the passage of time, but turbid'. Carl Gustav Jung
66) "The sparkling wine on the palate lingered swallowed. Pressing into the vat bunches of grapes. The warmth 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 are someone else's'. Pedro Ruiz
69) "Wine is one of the greatest signs of civilisation in the world. Ernest Hemingway
70) 'Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of wine'. Anonymous
71) 'Always ready for a new idea and an old wine'. Bertold Brecht
72) 'Wine loves and seduces me only to the point where its and my spirit engage in friendly conversation'. Herman Hesse
73) 'Good wine is each 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 soloist, imparts his cadence'.. Philippe Margot
74) 'Wine is bottled poetry'.. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
75) 'If we drink temperately and in small sips, the wine will drip into our lungs like the sweetest morning dew'. Socrates
76) 'Those red wine moments, time slowing down, improbable words, many eyes and then laughter'. Fabrizio Caramagna
77) 'Three quarts of moon and a quart of wine sometimes divide the time delightfully'. Fabrizio Caramagna
78) 'In water, one sees one's own face; but in wine, one sees the heart of another'. French proverb
8. Phrases about the future and 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 at will'. Omar Ḫayyām
9. Phrases about dreams and wine
82) "But what intoxication can the most famous wine give, if there is not at least the weary shadow of a dream in it?" Corrado Govoni
83) 'Stretch the bottle towards the light; you will see that your dreams are always at the bottom'. Rob Hutchison
84) 'Wine is sometimes a ladder of dreams'. Antonio Machado
85) 'What one looks for in wine: beauty, colour, culture, pleasure and dream'.. G. Jacquenot
10. Health and wine sentences
86) 'I enjoyed great health until late in life, because every day since I can remember I consumed a bottle of wine, except when I did not feel well. Then I consumed two bottles'. Bishop of Seville
87) 'Wine is to the soul what water is to the body'. Mario Soldati
88) 'Wine is the healthiest and most hygienic of drinks. Louis Pasteur
89) 'A study points out that wine is good for the heart. I can confirm this, because after a few glasses I love everyone'.. Anonymous
90) 'Wine is a wonderfully appropriate thing for man if, in health as well as in sickness, one drinks it purposely and with measure, according to the individual constitution'. Hippocrates
91) 'Wine does not deserve to be demonised or sanctified. It is not a medicine, although it is the origin of all medicine. Perhaps it is more a lesson in life'. Jacques Touchon
11. Phrases on wine and teetotalers
91) 'There is nothing wrong with sobriety in small doses'. John Ciardi
92) 'No poem written by water drinkers can please or live long'. Quinto Horace Flaccus
93) 'Be temperate in your drinking: too much wine keeps no secrets nor does it keep promises'. Miguel de Cervantes
94) "It is not true that a man is transformed by getting drunk. It is when he is sober that he is different!" Thomas De Quincey
95) 'Do not trust a person who does not like wine'. Karl Marx
96) 'No one is more dangerous than a man without ideas, the day he has one will go to his head like wine to a teetotaler'. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
97) 'He who does not get drunk because he naturally hates wine, deserves praise for being 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 is transformed by getting drunk. It is when he is sober that he is different!" Thomas De Quincey
100) 'The teetotaler: a weakling who gives in to the temptation to deny himself a pleasure'. Ambrose Bierce
12. Historical phrases about wine
1o1) 'The land is only as good as those who work it'. Marcus Aurelius
102) “Drinking a glass of wine is like tasting a drop of the river of human history'. Clifton Fadiman
13. Phrases on happiness and wine
103) 'Happiness, like a fine wine, must be savoured sip by sip'. Ludwig Feuerbach
104) 'Give me books, fruit, French wine, good weather and some music outside the door, played by someone I don't know'. John Keats
105) "Et però credo che molto felicità sia agli homini che nascono dove si trovano i vini buoni. Leonardo Da Vinci
106) “Friends, a glass of wine, serenity, a corner in a garden of flowers... I would not trade this joy for any other present or future joy. Hãfiz
14. Generic wine aphorisms
107) 'Be temperate in your drinking: too much wine does not keep secrets or promises.Miguel de Cervantes
108) 'Wine makes the wise man foolish and the foolish wise'. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
109) 'Wine is nothing but sunlight mixed with the moisture of the vine'.. Galileo Galilei
110) 'There are some wines that are better than others, that is a fact: but there are some wines that we loved one day because they were offered to us so generously. Pierre Sansot
111) 'Wine can be a better teacher than ink'.. Stephen Fry
112) 'When wine goes in, strange things come out'. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
113) 'Unlike fashion designers or car makers, the winemaker remains at the mercy of nature. Since she has the final word, the first lesson to be learned is that of humility'. Henri Plouïdy
114) 'Wine is a kind of inner laughter that for a moment makes the face of our thoughts beautiful'. Henri de Régnier
115) 'Wine is one of mankind's greatest achievements, transforming a perishable fruit into something permanent'.. Jean Arlott
116) 'The overwhelming power of wine penetrates man and spreads and distributes ardour in his veins'. Titus Lucretius Carus
117) 'Man owes it to wine that he is the only animal to drink without thirst'.. Pliny the Elder
118) 'Wine, like flying, was invented so that my mind could be elevated - to better see the world from above'.
Fabrizio Caramagna
119) 'The wonders of wine. In the space of a season it goes from the pure fire of the sun to the clear ruby colour of the bottle'. Fabrizio Caramagna
120) "God put the vineyard on the earth, and the devil put the man beside me". Walter Scott
121) 'To drink wine is to drink genius'. Charles Baudelaire
I hope I have helped you whether you were looking for funny phrases about drinking wine, or if you were looking for phrases for wedding wine labels. By the way. do you know which 6 wines I said yes to?
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