Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
—Eduardo Galeano

Beer is made by men, wine by God.
—Martin Luther

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
—Thomas Aquinas

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
—Benjamin Franklin

Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
—Francis Bacon

I prefer my water in wine form.
—P. C. Cast

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
—John Keats