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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Andre Simon

"You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one."

Len Evans

"Wine is wont to show the mind of man."

Theogenis

"One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and one talks about it."

King Edward VII

"Where there is no wine there is no love."

Euripides

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night."

DH Lawrence

"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."

Martin Luther

"Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach"

Spanish saying

"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."

Aristophanes