"Wine – Never complain, Never demand ----whether you like it or don’t" - Sudhish Srivastava
"I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they
sell." - Omar Khayyam
"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him
more pleasing to others." - Samuel Johnson
"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile." - Homer, "Odyssey (9th c. B.C.)
"When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing."- Ovid, "The Art of Love" (c. A.D. 8)
"Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts." - John Stuart Blackie
"If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life." - Sir Alexander Fleming
"Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea and coffee leave us much more serious." - Lord Byron
"Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man." - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary," 1907
"I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles." - A Bishop of Seville
"The soft extractive note of an aged cork being withdrawn has the true sound of a man opening his heart." - William S. Benwell,
"Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day."- Angelo Pelligrini
"In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary." - Ernest Hemingway
"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." - Ben Franklin
"God made only water, but man made wine."- Victor Hugo, "Les Contemplations (1856)
"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." - Julia Child
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