Food And Wine Quotes

Food And Wine Quotes by William Shakespeare, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Clifton Fadiman, Pope John XXIII, W. C. Fields, Benjamin Franklin and many others.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name t

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare
If wine tells truth – and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
Clifton Fadiman
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine had such ill effects on Noah’s health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
Will Rogers
Where there is no wine there is no love.
Euripides
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
I am falser than vows made in wine.
William Shakespeare
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
Robert Mondavi
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
Louis Pasteur
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
William Shakespeare
America has undergone a total food and wine revolution.
Wolfgang Puck