Vino Quotes

In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

God made only water, but man made wine.

I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

The older I get, the better I was.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

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

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth" itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance (the Truth, the Body of Knowledge), or a quality (something like the colour red, inhering in truths), or a relation ("correspondence"). But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word "true." In vino, possibly, "veritas," but in a sober symposium "verum."

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.