“For when the wine is in, the wit it out.” – Thomas Becon

“Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?” – James A. McDougall

“The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.” – Louis Pasteur

Wine, wit and widsom.
Wine enough to sharpen wit,
Wit enough to give zest to wine,
Wisdom enough to “shut down” at the right time

“If wine tells truth, – and so have said the wise, –
It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“In vino veritas – In wine there is truth.” – Pliny the Elder

“Wine is like rain: when it falls on the mire it but makes it fouler, but when it strikes the good soil wakes it to beauty and bloom.” – John May

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

“A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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