There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.
Rocco DiSpirito

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
Charles Morgan

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
Patrick MacGill

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
M. F. K. Fisher

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Coleman Young

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
D. L. Hughley

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
Ernest Dowson

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Titus Maccius Plautus

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.
Itzhak Perlman

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
Ovid

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
Frederick William Robertson

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal

Truth comes out in wine.
Pliny the Elder

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
William Bligh

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

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung