Wine proverbs, aphorisms, cites, and phrases!

Inter prandendum sit saepe parumque bibentum.

While eating, drink little and often.

(Salerno medical school)

Vina bibant hominis, animantia cetera fontis.

Men drink wine, other animals drink it from sources.

(Salerno medical school)

Vinum spumosum, nisi defluat est vitiosum.

The wine is bad if the foam doesn’t go away immediately.

(Salerno medical school)

Ut vives poenam de potibus incipe coenam.

To live away from ailments, start with good drinks at your meals.

(Salerno medical school)

Sitis licita, etiam potio licita.

It is permissible to be thirsty, therefore drinking is also permissible.

Inter pocula silet negotia.

Business is silent between the glasses.

Deficient wine, omni deficit.

If the wine is missing, everything is missing.

Bibere humanum est, ergo bibamus.

Drinking is a human thing, so let’s drink.

Ave color vini clari, ave sapor sine pari.

Health or wine with a transparent color, health or wine with an unparalleled flavor.

Primum gotum bibe totum; ad secundum – vide fundum; erit tertium sicut primum, et sic semper bibe vinum.

The first glass deflects everything, the second you see the bottom; do with the third as with the first, and so always drink the wine.

Vinum bonum laetificat cor hominis.

Good wine makes good blood.

Drinks brothers, drinks, ne diabulus vos otiosas inveniat.

Drink, brothers, drink, so that the devil does not catch you in idleness.

(Brother Gaudenzio)

Nulla pleasurere diu nec vivere carmina possunt quae scribuntur acquae potoribus.

The verses written by water drinkers cannot please or last long.

(Quinto Orazio Flacco)

Potus aquae sumtus fit edendi valde nocivus.

Drinking too much water at the table is harmful.

(Salerno medical school)

Gignit et humores melius vinum meliores.

From the best wine comes better moods.

(Salerno medical school)

Good drink here, good sleep; sleep well here, don’t sin; qui non peccat vadit in caelum. Ergo, qui bene bibit vadit in caelum.

He who drinks well, sleeps well; he who sleeps well does not sin; he who does not sin goes to heaven. So whoever drinks well goes to heaven.

Vinum opus dei, ebrietas opus diabuli.

Wine is the work of God, drunkenness is the work of the devil.

(Saint John Chrysostom)

Vinum etiam senes adducit ut saltent vel nolentes.

Wine makes the elderly dance even in spite of themselves.

(University)

Nunc est bibendum, nuc pede libero pulsanda tellus.

Now we must drink, now we must make the earth resonate with free foot.

(Quinto Orazio Flacco)

Salable wine suspensa hedera non opus est.

Good wine doesn’t want branches.

(Lucius Junius Moderate Columella)

Vina parant animos faciuntque caloribos aptos.

Wines prepare the soul and make them open to passion.

(Publius Ovidius Nasone)

Bibamus papaliter.

Let’s drink from dad.

(Pope Benedict II)

“The beauty of wine is that, for two hours, your problems belong to others.”

Pedro Ruiz

“Those who only drink water have a secret to hide.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Great is the fortune of he who owns a good bottle, a good book, a good friend.”

Moliere

“Wine is like incarnation: it is both divine and human.”

Paul Tillich

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”

Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“The soft sound of a cork being popped from the bottle has the sound of a man opening his heart.”

William S. Benwell

“A meal without wine is like a day without sun.”

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The only weapon I tolerate is a corkscrew.”

Jean Carmet

“Wine is the intellectual part of a meal, meat and legumes are merely the material part.”

Alexander Dumas

“Nothing makes the future so rosy as contemplating it through a glass of Chambertin.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“A bottle of wine implies sharing; I’ve never met a wine lover who was selfish.”

Clifton Fadiman

“Wine is one of man’s greatest achievements which transformed a perishable fruit into something permanent.”

Jean Arlott

“Nunc vino pellite curas.”

“Drown your worries in wine.”

Horace

“When you’re happy you drink to celebrate. When you are sad you drink to forget, when you have nothing to be sad or happy, you drink to make something happen.”

Charles Bukowski

“I drink to make others interesting.”

George Jean Nathan

“Life is too short to drink mediocre wines.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Hold the bottle towards the light; you will see that your dreams are always at the bottom.”

Rob Hutchison

“Some never go crazy. Their wines must be really boring.”

Charles Bukowski

“Water divides men; wine unites them.”

Free Bovio

“Wine should be eaten, it is too good to just drink.”

Jonathan Swift

“Here, men should be born happier and more joyful than elsewhere, and therefore I believe that much happiness goes to men who are born where good wines are found…”

Leonardo de Vinci

“Crazy wine that can drive even the very wise man

to sing a song and laugh heartily,

and sends him up to dance, and lets out a few words

that it was better to remain silent.”

Homer

“Beer is the work of man, wine of God.”

Martin Luther

“Wine is a living liquid that contains no preservatives. Its life cycle includes youth, maturity, old age and death. If not treated with reasonable respect he will get sick and die.”

Julia Child

“Wine and music were always the best corkscrews for me.”

Anton Chekhov

“Of course, God was truly generous in giving wine to man. If I were God, I would have kept the recipe to myself.”

Théophile Gautier

“Quickly, bring me a glass of wine, so that I can wet my mind and say something intelligent.”

Aristophanes

“Good wine is every time a symphony of four movements, performed to the rhythm of the seasons. The sun, the soil, the climate and the vines modulate the work, while the winemaker, as a soloist, imprints his cadence.”

Philippe Margot

“The passion for wine is complex. Many symptoms are part of it. The pleasure of knowing it and sharing it is one. Without forgetting the interest in traveling for wine, that is to say discovering the wine-growing regions, by definition the most beautiful, meeting winemakers, chefs and other friends of wine.”

Philippe Margot

“Wine is to the soul what water is to the body.”

Mario Soldati

“Wine, especially in Italy, is the poetry of the earth.”

Mario Soldati

“I like everything that is old; old friends, old times, old ways, old books, old wines.”

Oliver Goldsmith

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”

Louis Pasteur

“Wine is the healthiest and most hygienic of drinks.”

Louis Pasteur

“I enjoyed great health until old age, because every day since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine, except when I felt unwell. So I consumed two bottles.”

Bishop of Seville

“Wine prepares hearts and makes them more ready for passion.”

Ovid

“His lips drink water, but his heart drinks wine.”

Edward Estlin Cummings

“My idea has always been that when you’re young, you like sweet wines; then you become sophisticated, and drink dry whites; then you become an expert connoisseur, and drink bold reds; and then you get older and drink sweet wines again.”

Sally Jessy Raphael

“You are wise when you drink well: he who does not know how to drink knows nothing.”

Nicolas Boileau

“The teetotaler: a weak person who gives in to the temptation to deny himself a pleasure.”

Ambrose Bierce

“If penicillin can cure the sick, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.”

Sir Alexander Fleming

“An old unknown writer said: “Nothing equals the joy of the man who drinks, except the joy of wine being drunk.””

Charles Baudelaire

“Life is so bitter, wine is so sweet; so why not drink?”

Umberto Saba

‎“Fill your skull with wine before it fills with dirt.”

Nazim Hikmet

“Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.”

Edmondo de Amicis

“The miracle of wine consists in making man what he should never cease to be: a friend of man.”

Ernst Engel

“Always ready for a new idea and an old wine.”

Berthold Brecht

“Wine is one of the greatest signs of civilization in the world.”

Ernest Hemingway

“I love the light of a bottle of intelligent wine on the table, when conversing.”

Pablo Neruda

“True connoisseurs don’t drink wine: they taste secrets.”

Salvador Dalí

“Don’t trust a person who doesn’t like wine.”

Karl Marx

“Wine does not deserve to be demonized or sanctified. It is not a medicine, even though it is the origin of every medicine. Maybe it’s more of a life lesson.”

Jacques Touchon

“The best wine is the oldest,

the best water is the newest.”

William Blake

“A good wine is like a good film: it lasts an instant and leaves a taste of glory in your mouth; it is new with every sip and, as happens with films, it is born and reborn in each taster.”

Federico Fellini

“I like the spirit of meeting up, the no-frills conviviality, the presence of snowflakes, that of thick walls, holding a glass of wine in my hand for a couple of hours of absolute serenity.”

Virginia Woolf

“New wine doesn’t always make us forget what the vine gave us the year before.”

Simonides

“With only swim trunks on, barefoot, with disheveled hair, in the fiery red darkness, sipping wine, spitting, jumping, running… that’s how you live.”

Jack Kerouac

“Wine does not deserve to be demonized or sanctified. It is not a medicine, even though it is the origin of every medicine. Maybe it’s more of a life lesson.”

Jacques Touchon

“Good food and good wine, it’s heaven on earth.”

Henry IV

“Putting water in wine is minting false money.”

Michel Bouvier

“Artists and poets continue to find the meaning of life in a glass of wine.”

Joy Sterling

“If we look at a glass of wine carefully enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the turbulent and evaporating liquid as a function of wind and time, the reflection on the glass of the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms.”

Richard Feynman

“Unlike fashion designers or car manufacturers, the winemaker remains at the mercy of nature. Since she has the final say, the first lesson to learn is that of humility.”

Henri Plouidy

“When the wine enters, the truth comes out.”

Benjamin Franklin

“When wine goes in, strange things come out.”

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

“Wine is the earth’s response to the sun.”

Margaret Fuller

“If you think about it carefully, you can drink wine for five reasons: first to celebrate, then to quench your thirst, then to avoid being thirsty afterwards, then to honor good wine and, finally, for any reason.”

Friedrich Rückert

“Great wine is an evolving work of art, never definitively fixed. He feigns immobility and is capable of deceiving time for several decades. Its purpose is to be drunk and to disappear together with the pleasure it provides. It is enough for you to have enough bottles in your cellar for the days of old age, and it acquires for you the timelessness of sculpture and painting or the repetitive availability of music and poetry.”

Émile Peynaud

“The whisky! Nothing rougher to swallow. In civilized countries, wine is drunk.”

Charles Chaplin

“Drinking a glass of wine is like tasting a drop from the river of human history.”

Clifton Fadiman

“Give me books, fruit, French wine, a good climate and some music outside the door, played by someone I don’t know.”

John Keats

“Bronze is the mirror of the face, wine that of the mind.”

Aeschylus

“Work makes days prosperous, wine makes Sundays happy.”

Charles Baudelaire

“God, filled with remorse, had fallen asleep; the man added the wine, sacred son of the Sun.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Wine can be a better teacher than ink.”

Stephen Fry

“… but through the streets of the village, from the boiling of the vats, the harsh smell of the wines goes to cheer souls.”

Giosuè Carducci

“It’s not true that a man transforms himself by getting drunk. It’s different when you’re sober!”

Thomas DeQuincey

“Wine is the song of the earth towards the sky.”

Luigi Veronelli

“Friends, a glass of wine, serenity, a corner in a flower garden… I wouldn’t exchange this joy for any other present or future.”

Hãfiz

“God only made water, but man made wine.”

Victor Hugo

“Age is just a number. It’s completely irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”

Joan Collins

“No poem written by water drinkers can please or live long.”

Horace

“The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to humanity than all governments in world history. Taste is a mystery that finds its best expression in wine.”

Jim Harrison

“Give the young wine goodnight to melancholy.”

Emilio Praga

“Wine is the balm of old age. The proverbs of all nations have said it, the doctors of all times have proclaimed it and Galen wrote: “Sane vinum pueris est alienissimum, ita senibus aptissimum”.

Paolo Mantegazza

“The wine and the man make me think of two fighters who are friends of each other, who fight each other without respite, and continually make peace. The vanquished always embraces the victor.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Wine is the most certain, and (without comparison) the most effective consoler.”

Giacomo Leopardi

“Wine is both a sacrament and entertainment for the elderly man. It was given to him by a god as a remedy for the austerity of old age. Wine fills our hearts with courage.”

Plato

“Wine is the milk of old people.”

Plato

“Humor is the water of the afterlife mixed with the wine of the here and now.”

Jean Arp

“God placed the vineyard on the earth and the devil placed man beside me.”

Walter Scott

“Drinking wine is drinking genius.”

Charles Baudelaire

“In the countryside, after a day of work, men raised their glass of wine to face level, observed it, let it light up before drinking it with caution. The centenary trees followed their destiny century after century and such slowness bordered on eternity.”

Pierre Sansot

“I like the dark ravines of sleeping taverns, where people culminate in the excess of singing, I like blasphemous and light things, and deep glasses of wine, where the mind rejoices, a level of magical thought.”

Alda Merini

“Drink wine in the winter because it is cold, and in the summer because it is hot.”

Henry George Bohn

“When the wine (made in his castle) is in its golden age of effervescence, every sick child in the village, as directed by the doctor, can be taken to the winepresses and immersed in it. If the doctor labels him “very ill,” he is double-dipped.”

Lillie de Hergermann-Lindencrone

“Wine is similar to man: we will never know to what extent we can esteem or despise it, love and hate it, nor how many sublime actions or criminal acts it is capable of.”

Charles Baudelaire

“If God didn’t want us to drink, why did he make the wine so good?”

Richelieu

“Wine is not just drunk, it is smelled, observed, tasted, sipped and… talked about.”

Edward VII

“How do you remember the taste of wine when the glass and its color are now lost.”

Kahlil Gibran

“Man owes to wine the fact that he is the only animal to drink without thirst.”

Pliny the Elder

“In vino veritas.”

“There is truth in wine.”

Pliny the Elder

“Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of girls, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.”

John Stuart Blackie

“Not laughing, but drinking is peculiar to man. I’m not saying drink simply and absolutely, because that’s how even animals drink; I mean drinking good, fresh wine. With wine you become divine.”

François Rabelais

“Wine is a wonderfully appropriate thing for man if, in health as in illness, it is drunk appropriately and in moderation, according to the individual constitution.”

Hippocrates

“Wine is a kind of internal laughter that for an instant makes the face of our thoughts beautiful.”

Henri de Régnier

“Wine elevates the soul and thoughts, and anxieties move away from the heart of man.”

Pindar

“One of the peaks of Parnassus was consecrated to Bacchus, the other to Apollo.”

Jonathan Swift

“Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus is ice.”

Terence

“Does wine therefore have a longer life than ours? But we, fragile human creatures, will take revenge by swallowing it whole. Life is in wine.”

Petronius Arbiter

“Wine and women lead even the wise astray.”

Sirach, Old Testament

“What kind of life is that of someone who lacks wine?”

Ecclesiastes

“Drink wine, you don’t know where you came from:

be happy, because you don’t know where you will go.”

Omar Kayyām

“Oh you, invisible spirit of wine, if you really have no name by which you can be called, let them call you by the name of the devil!”

William Shakespeare

“Wine is nothing other than sunlight mixed with the moisture of the vine.”

Galileo

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“The best oil is at the top, the best wine in the middle and the best honey at the bottom.”

Macrobius

“What we look for in wine: beauty, color, culture, pleasure and dream.”

G. Jacquenot

“Wine makes the wise foolish and the foolish wise.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Be temperate in drinking: too much wine keeps no secrets or keeps promises.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“There’s nothing wrong with sobriety in small doses.”

John Ciardi

“Language is wine on the lips.”

Virginia Woolf

“I want to suffocate the pain in wine, I ask wine to bring sleep into tired eyes, a comforter.”

Albius Tibullus