Jer > Jer's Quotes

“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
― Louis Pasteur

“I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
― Francis Bacon

“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
― William Butler Yeats

“In wine, there's truth.”
― Pliny the Elder, Pliny: Natural History IV

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
― Rumi