Women And Wine Quotes

Women And Wine Quotes by George Herbert, Ernest Hemingway, Martial, George Bernard Shaw, Cesare Pavese, John Gay and many others.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
George Herbert
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
Ernest Hemingway
Wine and women bring misery.
Martial
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
Don’t mix wine and women.
Cesare Pavese
Fill ev’ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?
John Gay
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
Edward Fitzgerald
Avoid wine and women – choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.
William Osler
Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!
Ravinder Singh
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
Lord Byron
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
[Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox
Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae
Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas
Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.]
Juvenal
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
Martin Luther
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
Lord Byron
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields