Andre Simon
Chef
"Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized."
Vineyards quotes
Vineyards
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Life is too short to drink bad wine."
Don Johnson
Actor, Producer
"Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary."
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"The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell."
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"Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod."
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"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."
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"It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil."
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"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage"
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"Wine makes every meal an occasion."
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"Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used."
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"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile"
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"I am falser than vows made in wine."
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"The very best of vineyards is the cellar"
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"I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful."
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"Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner."
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