Best Wine Quotes

"The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star."
~ Leonardo da Vinci

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."
~ Galileo Galilei

"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
~ Sarah Bernhardt

"I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are."
~ Michelangelo

"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
~ Diogenes, 412-323 B.C.

"A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!"
Gustav Mahler

"And that you may the less marvel at my words, Look at the sun's heat that becomes wine when combine with the juice that flows from the vine."
~ Dante Alighieri

"When the wine goes in strange things come out."
~ Friedrich Schiller

"Wine is the divine juice of September."
~ Voltaire

"Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes."
~ Victor Hugo,

"God made only water, but man made wine."
~ Victor Hugo

"The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world."
~Hafiz

"Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter fruit."
~ Omar Khayyam

"I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell."
~ Omar Khayyam

"It is said that dining one night at Potsdam with Wilhelm II, Bismarck was served German 'Champagne' or Sekt. He tasted it...and put down his glass. The kaiser looked at him inquiringly. 'Your Majesty,' said Bismarck, 'I cannot drink German champagne.' Wilhelm explained that he had decided to serve Sekt rather than the Chancellor's beloved Heidsieck, not only for reasons of economy, but as a patriotic gesture. 'Your Majesty,' said Bismarck simply, 'I am extremely sorry. My patriotism stops short of my stomach.’"
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Famous German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe was asked, which three things he would take to an island. He stated: "Poetry, a beautiful woman and enough bottles of the world's finest wines to survive this dry period!" Then he was asked what would he leave behind first, if it was allowed to take only two things to the island. And he replied: "The poetry!" Surprised, the man asked the next question: "And Sir, what would you leave behind if only one was allowed?" And Goethe thought for a couple of minutes and answered: "It depends on the vintage!"

"Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil"
~ Lord Byron