Old Wine Quotes
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Old Wine Quotes & Sayings
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You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That's what the old woman told me, and I listened.
— L'Poni Baldwin
I am not old but mellow like good wine.
— Stephen Phillips
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age ...
— Jonathan Swift
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
— Francis Bacon
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
— Andre Tchelistcheff
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
— Charles Kingsley
And intellect at Christminster is new wine in old bottles.
— Thomas Hardy
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
— Lawrence Durrell
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
— Lord Byron
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
— William Butler Yeats
I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
— Robert Mondavi
(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
— Galen
Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/
But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine — Tom T. Hall
But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine — Tom T. Hall
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
— Clement Attlee
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
— George Herbert
Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
— Julia Child
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
— Lord Byron
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
— Shackerley Marmion
I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.
— Geoffrey Zakarian
The old Janey only drank cheap wine and light beer. The new Janey is classy, prefers cocktails, and even drinks alone.
— J.C. Patrick
My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.
— Robert Mondavi
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.
— Michel De Montaigne
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.
— Jonathan Lethem
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.
— Paul Henderson
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
— Ambrose Bierce
Quality wine, Scotch, and coffee had been the three irreplaceable commodities after the death of Old Earth.
— Dan Simmons
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
— Thomas Jefferson
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
— E.A. Bucchianeri
I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either.
— Mick Hucknall
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton