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No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God."

Plato

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one's present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason."

Latin saying 

Quickly bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may whet my mind and say something clever."

Euripedes

Wine is bottled poetry."

Robert Louis Stevenson  

Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin 

Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.

Spanish saying 

God made only water, but man made wine.

Victor Hugo

A waltz and a glass of wine invite an encore."

Johann Strauss

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it well used."

Shakespeare 

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Diogenes

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

Euripides

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages."

Louis Pasteur

Wine cheereth God and man."

Judges 9:13

Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

St. Paul, 1 Timothy 5:23

Wine is the pearl in the oyster of the grape.

Charles A. Nardone, Mirabella Ranch, Texas USA 

Wine is sunlight, held together by water."

Galileo Galilei

Now is the time for drinking, now is the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. "

Horace

Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved."

Medieval German saying 

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues."

Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry."

Ecclesiastes 8:15