Wine

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
-Robert Louis Stevenson, in "The Silverado Squatters"

 

A warm toast.
Good company.
A fine wine.
May you enjoy all three.

 

Any port in a storm.

 

Balm of my cares, sweet solace of my toils, Hail justice benignant!
-Thomas Wharton

 

Clean glasses and old corks.

 

Comrades, pour the wine tonight
For the parting is with dawn;
Oh, the clink of cups together,
With the daylight coming on!
-Richard Hovey

 

Count not the cups; not therein lies excess
In wine, but in the nature of the drinker.

 

Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is,-live today!

 

For of all labors, none transcend
The works that on the brain depend;
Nor could we finish great designs
Without the power of generous wines.

 

Give of your wine to others,
Take of their wine to you.
Toast to life, and be toasted awhile,
That, and the cask is through.
-James Monroe Mclean, The Book of Wine

 

God, in His goodness, sent the grapes
To cheer both great and small;
Little fools will drink too much,
And great fools none at all.

 

God made Man,
Frail as a Bubble
God made Love
Love made Trouble
God made the Vine
Was it a sin
That Man made Wine
To drown Trouble in?
-Oliver HERFORD, The Deb's Dictionary

 

Good wine makes good blood;
Good blood causeth good humors;
Good humors cause good thoughts;
Good thoughts bring forth good works;
Good works carry a man to heaven.
Ergo:
Good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
-James Howell, to Lord Clifford
early seventeenth century

 

He that drinks is immortal
For wine still supplies
What age wears away;
How can he be dust
That moistens his clay?
-H. Purcell

 

He who clinks his cup with mine,
Adds a glory to the wine.
-George Sterling

 

Here's a bumper of wine; fill thine, fill mine:
Here's a health to old Noah, who planted the vine!
-R. H. Barham

 

Here's to mine and here's to thine!
Now's the time to clink it!
Here's a flagon of old wine,
And here we are to drink it.
-Richard Hovey

 

Here's to old Adam's crystal ale,
Clear, sparkling and divine,
Fair H2O, long may you flow,
We drink your health (in wine).
-Oliver Herford

 

Here's to the man who knows enough
To know he's better without the stuff;
Himself without, the wine within,
So come, me hearties, let's begin.

 

Here's to the man
Who owns the land
That bears the grapes
That makes the wine
That tastes as good
As this does.

 

He who clinks his cup with mine,
Adds a glory to the wine.
-George Sterling

 

Here's a bumper of wine; fill thine, fill mine:
Here's a health to old Noah, who planted the vine!
-R. H. Barham

 

Here's to mine and here's to thine!
Now's the time to clink it!
Here's a flagon of old wine,
And here we are to drink it.
-Richard Hovey

 

Here's to old Adam's crystal ale,
Clear, sparkling and divine,
Fair H2O, long may you flow,
We drink your health (in wine).
-Oliver Herford

 

Here's to Water, water divine-
It dews the grapes that give us wine.

 

I often wonder what the vintners buy
One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
-Omar Khayyam

 

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
-Horace

 

Then a smile, and a glass, and a toast and a cheer, For all the good wine, and we've some of it here.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

This bottle's the sun of our table,
His beams are rosy wine;
We, plants that are not able
Without his help to shine.

 

This wine is full of gases
Which are to me offensive,
It pleases all you asses
Because it is expensive.
-A. P. Herbert

 

To the big-bellied bottle.

 

When I die-the day be far!
Should the potters make ajar
Out of this poor clay of mine,
Let the jar be filled with wine!

 

When wine enlivens the heart
May friendship surround the table.

 

Wine and women-May we always have a taste for both.

 

Wine improves with age-I like it more the older I get.

 

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”
-Benjamin Franklin.