SIMON'S FAVOURITE WINE QUOTES

Wine, one sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise and taste.

John Milton

Wine makes daily living easier, with fewer tensions, and more tolerance.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing more excellent, or valuable, than wine has ever been granted by the gods to man.

Plato

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

John Cleese (Basil Fawlty)

Not only does one drink wine, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one tastes it, one swallows it, and one talks about it.

King Edward VII

Where there is no wine, love perishes, and everything else that is pleasant to man.

Euripides

Wine is light held together by moisture.

Galileo Galilei

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Cardinal Richlieu

Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil, and fear her danger, opens a new world when this, the present, palls.

Lord Byron

One may dislike carrots, spinach, beetroot, or the skin on hot milk. But not wine. It is like hating the air one breathes, since each is equally indispensable.

Marcel Ayme

Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach

Traditional Spanish saying

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I feast on bread and wine, and feasts they are.

Michelangelo

In vino veritas.

Pliny

A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.

Michael Broadbent