"Great news!"

"I have it on the highest medical authority that you will still be alive in 10 years! You know what this means?"

"Of course I know what it means,"

"It means we don’t have to drink up all our 1985 and 1986 Château Latour at supper tonight for fear I might die with several outrageously priced wines undrunk. For the first time in years, we can go to bed sober."

"Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly."

"If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink:

Good wine;
A friend;
Or being dry;
Or lest we should be, by and by;
Or any other reason why!"

"Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy."

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

"Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it."

"Compromises are for relationships, not wine."

"Beer is made by men, wine by God!"

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

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

[at his first sip of champagne] "Come quickly! I am tasting stars!"

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

"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that 'age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.'"

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

"Wine is life."

"He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret." (claret is the British term for red Bordeaux)

"Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin."

"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage."

"Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne."

"Life is too short to drink bad wine."

"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."

"Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil."

"I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

"Wine offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased."

"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne."

[Making wine] "is like having children; you love them all, but boy, are they different."

"Wine... the intellectual part of the meal."

"Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes."

"And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile."

"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."

"When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking."

"If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul."

"And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard."

"So life’s year begins and closes;
Days though shortening still can shine;
What though youth gave love and roses;
Age still leaves us friends and wine."

"A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect"

"Poor laughing lovers,
Makes us frolic and gay,
and drowns all our sorrows."

"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."

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

"It takes a lot of beer to make good wine."

"Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized."

"I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself."

"Not since lunch."

"Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night."

"My dear girl, there are some things that are just not done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ‘53 above the temperature of 38° Fahrenheit."

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

"Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary."

"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

"During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days."

"A man can live without art, but not without culture."

"I can certainly see you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn’t know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret."

"We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good."

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

"In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song."

"Winston, you are drunk!"

"Madame, I may be drunk, but you are ugly, and tomorrow I will be sober."

"Never buy the cheapest wine in any category, as its taste may discourage you from going on. The glass, corks, cartons, and labor are about the same for any wine, as are the ocean freight and taxes for imported wines. Consequently, if you spend a little more, you are likely to get a better wine, because the other costs remain fixed. Cheap wine will always be too expensive."

"I’m not worried about the reds; they’ll keep OK. But I am worried about the whites."

"The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine."

"The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France."

"And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard."

"I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other."

"Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake."

"No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better."

"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste."

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?"

"Great news!"

"I have it on the highest medical authority that you will still be alive in 10 years! You know what this means?"

"Of course I know what it means,"

"It means we don’t have to drink up all our 1985 and 1986 Château Latour at supper tonight for fear I might die with several outrageously priced wines undrunk. For the first time in years, we can go to bed sober."

"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."

"The two professions are almost the same. Each depends on source material and takes a lot of time to perfect. The big difference is that today’s winemakers still worry about quality."

"Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart."

"Between 5/22/85 and 5/4/88, the French writer Jean-Paul Kauffmann was held chained and often blindfolded in a Beirut basement. A lover of Bordeaux, Mr. Kauffmann recited daily the list of the 61 greatest chateaux drawn up in 1855. He strove to conjure up the aroma of a Chateau Margaux or a Leoville-Poyferre. Occasionally a small miracle would occur, and the scent of black currants and plum would permeate the dusty heat of Lebanon."

"Wino Forever"

"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."

""Salud, pesetas, amore, y tiempo para gustarlos." (Health, wealth, love, and time for us to enjoy them.)