“Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will wicken and die.” – Julia Child

“I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn’t have to wait for it to age.” –  Steven Wright

“I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.” – Rose Kennedy, on her 100th birthday

“Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.” – Charles Kingsley

“I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” – Oliver Goldsmith

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

“Wine is the milk of the gods, milk the drink of the babies, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.” – John Stuart Blackie

“Never spare the parson’s wine nor the baker’s pudding” – Benjamin Franklin

“A good wine is like a gentle kiss, its effect throughout the meal is scintillatingly sensual in an elegantly understated way.” – Frances Tabeek

“Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.” – Randgle Cotgrave