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“Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It’s the essence of civilization and the art of living.”

— Robert Mondavi

“Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or fourteenth.”

— George Burns

“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”

— W.C. Fields

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.

I lift the glass to my mouth,

I look at, and I sigh.

— William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?”

— Larson E. Whipsnade (W.C. Fields)

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

“Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.”

        — Michael Broadbent

“Here’s to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly.”      — W.E.P. French

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

     — Anonymous

“From wine what sudden friendship springs!”