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Came across this today, not seen it before and thought worth posting it for posterity. Feel free to post your favourite wine quotes!

From a play by Eubulos, (c.405 BC - c.335 BC)
‘For sensible men I prepare only three kraters (large vase used to mix wine): one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After the third one is drained, wise men go home.

The fourth krater is not mine any more - it belongs to bad behaviour; the fifth is for shouting; the sixth is for rudeness and insults; the seventh is for fights; the eighth is for breaking the furniture; the ninth is for depression; the tenth is for madness and unconsciousness.’

TiggerK wrote:Came across this today, not seen it before and thought worth posting it for posterity. Feel free to post your favourite wine quotes!

From a play by Eubulos, (c.405 BC - c.335 BC)
‘For sensible men I prepare only three kraters (large vase used to mix wine): one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After the third one is drained, wise men go home.

The fourth krater is not mine any more - it belongs to bad behaviour; the fifth is for shouting; the sixth is for rudeness and insults; the seventh is for fights; the eighth is for breaking the furniture; the ninth is for depression; the tenth is for madness and unconsciousness.’

nice. i like that one.

My favourite is Hemingway:

“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”

I also enjoy the Latin proverb:

"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."

I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone.
When I have company, I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty.
- Lily Bollinger

I only ever have one martini, or two at the most. After three Im under the table and after Im under the host! - Mae West

Thanks Sam. I was thinking of the same one.... A classic...

sjw_11 wrote:I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone.
When I have company, I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty.
- Lily Bollinger

I only ever have one martini, or two at the most. After three Im under the table and after Im under the host! - Mae West

Martini's... are like breasts. One is not enough, three is too many.

Duncan Disorderly wrote:

sjw_11 wrote:I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone.
When I have company, I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty.
- Lily Bollinger

I only ever have one martini, or two at the most. After three Im under the table and after Im under the host! - Mae West

Martini's... are like breasts. One is not enough, three is too many.

And since we've digressed from wine to just drinking I always liked this one:

"Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Maybe some of us drink because we're not poets."
Arthur

On drinking in general
“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day”

burges wrote:On drinking in general
“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day”

Dean Martin?

I suppose someone was going to Google this subject:

http://winefolly.com/update/24-funny-wine-quotes/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/wine.html

http://pinterest.com/winegifts/wine-quo ... e-funnies/

http://www.wrathofgrapes.com/winequot.html

Cheers

Allan

I am just reminded of a much under-rated sort of crime author called Kyril Bonfiglioli who crafted a character called Mortdecai a sort of semi posh English arsitrocratic art dealer cum thug... he has some wonderful language to describe drinking and the results...

My personal favourite is this description of the morning after: "I awoke feeling positively chipper but the feeling didn't last. By the time I had dressed and packed I was being shaken with a hangover like a rat in the grip of a keen but inexperienced terrier."

Thanks for the topic Tim, I get to quote from of my 50th birthday gifts.

In 1920, George Saintsbury published a book of ruminations upon the cellar book he had kept. A simple dog-eared exercise book gave him enough material to write a short book from, and it's a splendid book. Been republished several times, but my brother-in-law (who has supplied all my great wine books) dug up a 1978 edition in wonderful condition. It's titled, obliquely" "Notes on a Cellar Book".

Anyway, on to the quote - and this book has dozens, but I think that each and every one of us who inhabit the forum are going to find something to smile at knowingly in this lot:

"There is no money, among that which I have spent since I began to earn my living, of the expenditure of which I am less ashamed, or which gave me better value in return, than the price of the liquids chronicled in this booklet. When they were good they pleased my senses, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people."

To George I say "Cheers!"

Dean Martin had a few telling quotes on drinking:
"I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up."
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."

Robin Williams gets in a few:
"There are white wines, there are red wines, but why aren't there any black wines like, 'Reggie: A Motherf**ker! It goes with fish, meat, any damn thing it wants to!'"
"If alcohol is a crutch, then Jack Daniel’s is the wheelchair. Eight glasses and you forget the English language. You just have one massive vowel movement."

And Frank Sinatra is also known to weigh in with a couple:
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."

Homer Simpson:

"To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems"

My own invention. "There's no such thing as too much wine."

On occasions my wife asks "Haven't you got enough wine". My stock answer is "Let's look at this objectively. If we drink say 4 bottle per week and assuming there are 1000 bottles in the cellar then there is enough wine for 250 weeks or a mere 5 years." I certainly intend living a lot longer than that and wine will only go up in price and it can only improve in the cellar. You can't argue with that logic!

Carl

"I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." - W.C. Fields

"Always carry a flask of whiskey in case of snake bite... Furthemore, always carry a small snake" ... I think that is attributed to WC Fields as well

"Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes. " - Horace