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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -- Francis Bacon
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. -- Lord Byron
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions. -- George Herbert
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. -- Charles Kingsley
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain -- Lord Byron
I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. -- Ambrose Bierce
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. -- John Webster
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree. -- Shackerley Marmion
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination. -- Andre Tchelistcheff
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best! -- Henry Austin Dobson
Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay. -- Alexis Sanchez
Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot! -- Jack Kerouac
Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine. -- Thomas Love Peacock
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -- Athenaeus
(Wine is) the nurse of old age. -- Galen
I am not old but mellow like good wine. -- Stephen Phillips
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles. -- Heinz Guderian
My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old. -- Robert Mondavi
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. -- Lawrence Durrell
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it. -- Alan Kay
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Fine #"? wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. -- Julia Child
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. -- Michel de Montaigne
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. -- Jonathan Lethem
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans. -- William Shakespeare
One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins. -- Nancy Ruth
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them. -- Clement Attlee
I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either. -- Mick Hucknall
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- William Butler Yeats
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. -- Juvenal
Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die. -- Julia Child
Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty. -- Judah the Prince

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