Wine And Friends Quotes:

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

- Thomas More

topic: Flower, Wine, Rose, Wine And Age, Wine And Cheese

Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.

- Robert Mondavi

source: Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Passion, Heart, Wine, Warmth Of Heart, Wine And Friends

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Wine, New Friendship, Wine And Friends

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: 1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

topic: Love, Friendship, Birthday, Stoops, Old Time

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

- James Joyce

topic: Wine, The End Of The Day, Drink, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

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

topic: Wine, Old Friends, Age, Best Wine, Old Wine

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Life Is Too Short, Wine, Vineyards, Life's Too Short, Life Is Way Too Short

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

- John Milton

topic: Dream, Drinking, Alcohol, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Friendship, Wine, Flames, Best Wine, Wine And Friends

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

- Jerome K. Jerome

source: Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Wine, Wine And Friends

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.488

topic: Wine, Giving, Bacchus, Unkindness, Wine And Age

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Wine, Doctors, Glasses, Best Wine, Wine And Friends

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

- Tom Waits

topic: Friends, Pain, Real, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Used, Familiar, Vineyards, Wine And Friends

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

- Aristophanes

topic: Clever, Wine, Successful, Vineyards, Old Wine

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Fall, Wine, I Pray, Wine And Friends

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

- Omar Khayyam

topic: Wine, Vineyards, Littles, Fine Wine, Wine And Friends

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

- W. C. Fields

topic: Drinking, Wine, Excellence, Vineyards, Best Wine

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.417, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Wine, Son, Men, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

- Ben Jonson

source: "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

topic: Romantic, Eye, Wine, Pledge, Best Wine

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

- John Milton

topic: Crush, Sweet, Wine, Sweet Poison, Sweet Wine

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Coriolanus' (1608) act 2, sc. 1, l. [52]

topic: Wine, Hot, Cups, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

- John Milton

source: 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 500

topic: Wine, Son, Night, Insolence, Wine And Friends

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.124, Palgrave Macmillan

topic: Cheer, Wine, Giving, Alacrity, Wine And Friends

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Men, Names, Alcoholism, Intemperance

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

- Don Johnson

topic: Wine, Cigar, Drink, Life's Too Short, Vineyards

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

- Henry Aldrich

source: 'Reasons for Drinking'

topic: Drinking, Wine, Thinking, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Men, Laughing, Wine And Friends, Wine Making

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Self, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

- Ivana Trump

topic: Wine, Want, Enjoy, Wine And Friends