“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.”
Ernest Hemingway

“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”
Benjamin Franklin

“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Wine is the thinking person’s health drink.”
Dr. Phillip Norrie

“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.”
W.C. Fields

“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”
Andre Simon, “Commonsense of Wine”

“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?”
W. C. Fields

“Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.”
Alexander Fleming

“The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.”
William Blake

“Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.”
Mark Twain

“No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health.”
Thomas Jefferson

“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.”
Mark Twain

“Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. ”
Samuel Johnson

“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.”
Francis Bacon

“The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it – they’re the ones falling down the most.”
Jay Leno

“Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, I’m finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You’re not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.”
David Hyde Pierce

“Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”
Tennessee Williams

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