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

“No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.” — Thomas Jefferson

“He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.” (“claret” is the British term for red Bordeaux) — Samuel Johnson

“Wine is life.” — Petronius, Roman writer

“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.'” — Francis Bacon, 1624

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
—Thomas Love Peacock

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill.
—Marty Rubin

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
—Basil Bunting

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.
—D. H. Lawrence

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
—Johnny Mercer