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25 Wine
QuotesPresented by
Baldacci Family Vineyards
6236 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558
Find Us on www.baldaccivineyards.com/
“God made water, but man made wine.” –Victor Hugo
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” -Galileo Galilei
“Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what
you do.”-Ecclesiastes 9:7
The Irish believe that fairies are extremely fond of good wine. The proof of the assertion is that in the olden days royalty would leave a keg of wine out for them at night. Sure enough it was always GONE in the morning!
-Irish Folklore
“I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well…then I have consumed two bottles.”
-Bishop of Seville
“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, Knights, 424 B.C.
“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”
-Anonymous
“Wine makes daily living easier, less
hurried, with fewer tensions
and more tolerance.”
-Benjamin Franklin
…good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
-William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“A man who was fond of wine was
offered some grapes at dessert
after dinner. ‘Much obliged,' said he, pushing the dish
away from him, 'but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in
pills.’”
-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The
Physiology of Taste, 1825
“By making this wine known to
the public, I have rendered mycountry as great a service
as if I had enabled it to pay back the
national debt.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Once... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on
nothing but food and water for days.”
W.C. Fields, My Little Chickadee, 1940
“My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just
as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!
-Sean Connery, Goldfinger, 1964
“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
“Compromises are made for relationships…not wine.”
-Sir Robert Scott Caywood
“Wine improves with
age. The older I get, the
better I like it.”
-Anonymous
“Hold the bottle up to the light; you will see your dreams are always at the bottom.”
-Rob Hutchison
“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
make the sage folic, and
the serious smile.”
-Homer
“In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it.”-Napoleon Bonaparte
“Fan the flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship, and
pass the rosy wine.”
-Charles Dickens
“Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.” -Alexander Fleming
“There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are
not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.”
-Thomas Love Peacock
“Sorrow can be alleviated
by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
“She gets to keep the chalet and the Rolls, I want the Montrachet.”
-Anonymous, Forbes Magazine, May 6, 1996
“Wine is poetry in a bottle.”
-Clifton Fadiman
Baldacci Family Vineyards
6236 Silverado Trail, Napa, CA 94558
707-944-9261
http://baldaccivineyards.com
Stop by anytime!