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I drink red wine on ice to water it down. -- Diane Keaton
I don't drink coffee. I like nice wines with dinner. -- Jeff Greene
If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food. -- Francis Ford Coppola
That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question. -- Joseph Epstein
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. -- Diogenes
You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow. -- Jonathan Tucker
I'm a winemaker and a wine collector, so I usually just drink wine. -- Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. -- Jonathan Swift
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat. -- Oliver Reed
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. -- Marilyn French
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. -- Mark Twain
The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad. -- William Nicholson
Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls. -- Charles Bukowski
Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later. -- Frank J. Prial
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -- Athenaeus
Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. -- Sophia Bush
I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them. -- Thomas Keller
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself. -- Simon Hoggart
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. -- Jonathan Lethem
My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't. -- Paul Henderson
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. -- John Stuart Blackie
Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures -- Kent Bach
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... -- Ernest Hemingway
Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying. -- Demetri Martin
Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing. -- Jack Kerouac
I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine. -- Joaquin Miller
There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure. -- Thomas Love Peacock
Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over. -- Sam Mendes
I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. -- Franco Nero
Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination. -- Marvin Shanken
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion. -- Deborah Harkness
I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies. -- Charles Bukowski
The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship. -- Jean Drapeau
Hmmm... cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking... I do a good braised short ribs with cabernet, though. We're big red wine drinkers here. All that research showing that it's good for you takes the guilt away. -- Alafair Burke
When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God. -- David Jeremiah
The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery. -- Joseph Haydn
I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment? -- Jack LaLanne
I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed. -- Dave Matthews
You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the same as drinking. Drinking pleases, mellows, loosens the tongue and inhibitions; drinking wine with food is healthy and natural; drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. -- Michael Broadbent
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences. -- Samuel Johnson
There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine. -- Elvis Costello
Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good. -- Emile Augier
The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking -- Alexis Lichine
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? -- Cardinal Richelieu
As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine. -- Julia Child
People spend too much time tasting wine; not enough time drinking it. -- Andre Tchelistcheff
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more. -- Mario Puzo
Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience? -- Jamie Goode
Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine. -- Benjamin Franklin
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it. -- Alan Kay
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. -- Michael Broadbent
One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes. -- Lou Holtz
Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford. -- Julia Child
Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about -- Edward VII
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise. -- Miguel de Cervantes
And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine -- Plato
The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves. -- Paul-Emile Victor
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell. -- Brandon Sanderson
She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills -- Homer
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing... -- Hiroko Sakai
I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice. -- Tom Araya
He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar. -- Ken Follett
She (Helen) threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills -- Homer
Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either. -- Ernie J Zelinski
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. -- Clifton Fadiman
Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning. -- Sarah Addison Allen
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine. -- A. J. P. Taylor
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. -- Alexis Lichine

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