Friday, November 28, 2014
Quotations on Wine
- A glass of wine and thou.
- At my age, I need glasses.
- A que vino si no toma vino! (Why did you come if you don’t drink wine. The word vino in Spanish means both wine and came.)
- Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
- Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange juice improves the Champagne and the Champagne definitely improves the orange juice. (Duke of Edinburgh.)
- Champagne gives me zest when I feel tired. (Brigitte Bardot.)
- Come quickly, I am tasting the stars. (Dom Perignon, when he discovered Champagne. But wiki says bubbles were originally viewed as a fault.)
- Don’t drink and drive. (Xmas road safety ad.)
- Five reasons why we should drink, ‘Good friends, good times, or being dry, or lest we should be by and by, or any other reason why. (Thomas Jefferson.)
- God made water, man made wine. (Victor Hugo.)
- Good wine needs no bush.
- I cook with wine, and sometimes I even add it to the food. (W C Fields.)
- I drink it when I am happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I am alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I’m thirsty. (Madam Lily Bollinger, in London to launch the first vintage of Bollinger RD Champagne, to the Daily Mail, Oct 17, 1961.)
- I’m only a beer teetotaller, not a Champagne teetotaller. (George Bernard Shaw)
- It you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even put. (Dean Martin.)
- In vino veritas. (In wine there is truth. Pliny the Elder, 23-79 A.D.)
- My only regret is that I did not drink more Champagne.
(Lord Maynard Keynes, on his deathbed. Milton Keynes is named after him.) - Look, it’s wine o’clock.
- Remember, gentlemen, it’s not just France we are fighting for, it’s champagne. (WWI Winston Churchill., 30 Nov 1874-Jan 24 1965)
- Save water. Drink wine.
- The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations. (French proverb.)
- The rich want good wine. The poor want plenty of wine. (German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832)
- There are five reasons for drinking wine, the arrival of a friend, feeling thirsty, a good wine, any other reason. (Latin saying.)
- There is a devil in every berry of the grape. (Koran.)
- Which three things would you take to a desert island? (To Goethe, writer of poetry, drama, novels and more.) ‘Poetry, a beautiful women and bottles of wine.’ And if you had to choose only two? ‘Depends on the vintage.’
- Whisky is a slap on the back. Wine is a mist before the eyes. (Jimmy Stewart in the movie Philadelphia Story)
- When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. (Henry Youngman.)
- Wine improves with age. I improve with wine.
- Wine is bottled poetry. (Robert Louis Stevenson.)
- Wine is (constant) proof that God loves us and wants to see us (to be) happy. (Benjamin Franklin 17 Jan 1706-17 Apr 1790.)
- Wine is the most healthful and hygienic of beverages. (Pasteur.)
- Wine makes a man mistake words for thoughts. (Samuel Jonson.)
- Wine, women and song.
From Quick Quotations by Angela Lansbury (Third version) Lulu.com
More champagne quotations on the website
http://www.champagnesabering.com/home.php?id=29&aid=102
More champagne quotations on the website
http://www.champagnesabering.com/home.php?id=29&aid=102
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