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140 Wine Quotes in 10 Categories

Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages. No wonder there are so many good, funny and wise sayings about it. If you’re looking for a quote for your wine night, a birthday, or your social media channels, you’re sure to find it in our article brimming with wine quotes.

Centuries ago, wine was already counted as a popular folk drink. It served as an inspiration for many poets and thinkers. And so there are many old sayings and proverbs about drinks that stem from the venerable grapevine.

And of course people still like to drink wine today, so many modern and funny sayings are now coupled with the older adages.

Classy Wine Quotes

Beautiful and Classy Wine Quotes

In our first list, you will find many classy and beautiful wine sayings that highlight the positive sides of drinking wine.

Share them with your friends who also like wine for example via WhatsApp. Or use them as a caption for a wine picture on Instagram.

  1. Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
    (Benjamin Franklin, American politician, 1706-1790)
  2. Happiness is a well-stocked wine cabinet and a closet full of shoes.
    (Unknown)
  3. Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
    (Thomas Aquinas, Italian theologian, 1225-1274)
  4. 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.
    (Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626)
  5. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
    (Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 250-184 B.C.)
  6. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
    (Benjamin Franklin, American politician, 1706-1790)
  7. My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
    (Mark Twain, American writer, 1835-1910)
  8. Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
    (Aeschylus, Greek poet, 525-456 B.C.)
  9. Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
    (Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, 544-483 B.C.)
  10. O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
    (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
  11. 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, Irish poet, 1865-1939)
  12. What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
    (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, 1806-1861)
  13. Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
    (George Herbert, British poet, 1593-1633)
  14. I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
    (Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, 1792-1822)
  15. Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
    (Gilbert K. Chesterton, English writer, 1874-1936)

Short Wine Quotes for Instagram & Co.

Short Wine Quotes

If you’re looking for particularly short wine sayings, you’ll find them in this chapter. The short wine sayings below are no more than a few words long.

Short sayings about wine are especially suitable as a caption under a picture on Instagram or for your WhatsApp status.

  1. Wine flies when you’re having fun.
    (Unknown)
  2. Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.
    (Unknown)
  3. Beer is made by men, wine by God!
    (Martin Luther, German Augustinian monk, 1483-1546)
  4. Wine is life.
    (Petronius, Roman courtier, 27-66 A.D.)
  5. Keep calm and pour on.
    (Unknown)
  6. Today’s forecast: sunny with a chance of wine.
    (Unknown)
  7. There’s a Riesling for everything.
    (Unknown)
  8. Wine a little and you’ll feel better.
    (Unknown)
  9. Home is where the wine is.
    (Unknown)
  10. You only live once so drink great wine.
    (Unknown)
  11. Wine is bottled poetry.
    (Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer, 1850-1894)
  12. Language is wine upon the lips.
    (Virginia Woolf, English writer, 1882-1941)
  13. Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
    (Publius Ovidius Naso, Ancient Roman poet, 43 B.C-17 A.D.)
  14. Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
    (Hafez, Persian lyric poet, 1315-1390)
  15. Wine is my love language.
    (Unknown)
  16. Let’s go wine tasting on the couch.
    (Unknown)
  17. Where there’s a wine, there’s a way.
    (Unknown)
  18. I am aging like a fine wine.
    (Unknown)
  19. Every empty bottle is filled with a great story.
    (Unknown)
  20. I drink wine to sanitize my insides.
    (Unknown)
  21. Working nine to wine.
    (Unknown)
  22. Drink like there is Pinot tomorrow.
    (Unknown)
  23. Wine is not a fool, but it can make one!
    (Unknown)
  24. Great minds drink alike!
    (Unknown)
  25. I’ll never be Bordeaux of you.
    (Unknown)

Funny Wine Quotes

Funny Wine Quotes

If you like to share your glass or bottle of wine with people whose humor is like yours, you can use the wine sayings below.

You can use them to lighten the atmosphere at any wine evening or party and provide a few laughs, too.

Some of the funny sayings may also suitable as decorative text for your apartment.

But be aware that some of the funny wine sayings also contain sarcasm. Use them only if you are also sure that they will be understood by those who are present.

  1. Wine might not be the answer to everything, but at least you forget the question.
    (Unknown)
  2. 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, French poet and aesthetician, 1821-1867)
  3. When you get hungover on wine, it’s called a grape depression.
    (Unknown)
  4. A meal without wine is called breakfast.
    (Unknown)
  5. In dog wine, I’ve only had two glasses.
    (Unknown)
  6. As long as we have wine, family holidays will be fine.
    (Unknown)
  7. Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
    (Rumi, Persian Sufi mystic, 1207-1273)
  8. What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
    (Diogenes, Greek philosopher, 412-323 B.C.)
  9. Ask not what wine has done for you, but rather what you’re willing to do for wine.
    (Unknown)
  10. Uh-oh, out of alcohol. Better call wine-one-one.
    (Unknown)
  11. My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
    (Jonathan Swift, Irish author, 1667-1745)
  12. Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
    (Douglas William Jerrold, English dramatist, 1803-1857)
  13. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
    (Aristophanes, Greek poet, 448-380 B.C.)
  14. The doctor told me to watch my drinking. So now I drink wine in front of the mirror. Lookin' good.
  15. Tonight’s forecast? 99 % chance of wine!
    (Unknown)
  16. I’m outdoorsy, I drink wine on the patio.
    (Unknown)
  17. You had me at Merlot.
    (Unknown)
  18. Medical experts confirm: The main cause of acute stress is lack of wine.
    (Unknown)
  19. My birthstone is a wine cork.
    (Unknown)
  20. If you walk a mile in my shoes, you’ll end up at a wine bar.
    (Unknown)

If you’re looking for funny quotes for every occasion, check out this article.

Funny Toasts about Wine

Funny Toasts about Wine

The wine sayings in the next list are especially suitable for humorous and boisterous drinking evenings.

But you can also have them printed on t-shirts and use them for occasions like a bachelor’s party or a strip night. Always remember to drink responsibly.

All of the following sayings are from unknown authors.

  1. What do friends and wine have in common? The older, the better.
  2. A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. Cheers!
  3. Some people need an occasion for wine. I just need a glass.
  4. May friendships, like wine, improve as time advances. And may we always have old wine, old friends, and young cares.
  5. Do not dream your life, but drink your wine.
  6. It hurts my heart so much when I see the bottom of the glass. So here’s a quick toast, before it’s too late again.
  7. Everyone has to believe in something. I think I’ll have another wine.
  8. Here’s wine to our real friends and real pain to our sham friends.
  9. To wine. It improves with age the older I get, the more I like it.
  10. To women/men and wine both are sweet poison.

Quotes about Loving Wine

Quotes about Loving Wine

Next, we have compiled wine love quotes for absolute wine lovers. You can use them to clearly express exactly how much you love wine.

You can also send them to friends and family if they love the drink as much as you do.

  1. I only drink wine on days that end with a "y".
    (Unknown)
  2. Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
    (John Keats, British poet, 1795-1821)
  3. Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.
    (Unknown)
  4. Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad.
    (Ecclesiasticus 31:27)
  5. Give me a bowl of wine. In this I bury all unkindness, […].
    (The Life and Death of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
  6. My favorite fruit? Grapes! In red color and liquid form.
    (Unknown)
  7. Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
    (Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, 1564-1642)
  8. Where there is no wine there is no love.
    (Euripides, Greek poet, 480-406 B.C.)
  9. Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.
    (Publius Ovidius Naso, Ancient Roman poet, 43 B.C-17 A.D.)
  10. He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
    (Martin Luther, German Augustinian monk, 1483-1546)

Quotes for a Gift Including Wine

Quotes for a Gift Including Wine

You’ve probably had the experience of wanting to give a special bottle of wine for birthdays or weddings — perhaps more than once.

But to give only the bottle as a gift can feel a little sparse. Fortunately it only takes a card to dress it up. But what should you write on the card?

This is where our sayings play an important role. They are perfect to add to a wine gift.

  1. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
    (Thomas More, Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, 1478-1535)
  2. If you train regularly, you will learn to distinguish between good and mediocre wines.
    (Unknown)
  3. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
    (Aristophanes, Greek poet, 448-380 B.C.)
  4. It is superficial to believe that wine produces directly from itself all the effects which we ascribe to it. Its scent and breath only awakens the qualities that are dormant within us.
    (Ludwig Tieck, German writer and poet, 1773-1853)
  5. This bottle of wine is a hint that we need to spend some time together again.
    (Unknown)
  6. Take life one sip at a time with this beautiful bottle of wine.
    (Unknown)
  7. A day without wine is like… just kidding, I have no idea.
    (Unknown)
  8. Wine is a gift from the earth, which I hereby pass on to you.
    (Unknown)

Proverbs and Wisdom about Wine

Proverbs and Wisdom about Wine

Wine has been drunk as early as the first century B.C. The Celts, the Etruscans and the Greeks also liked to drink wine.

For the ancient Romans, wine was a dietary staple. Because wine has always been a popular and important drink, there are many wise sayings and proverbs about it.

Many of these bits of wisdom are about how wine makes you talkative and that it should be enjoyed in moderation. But read through the list of wine wisdom for yourself and learn something about the drink.

  1. In vino veritas.
    (Alcaeus of Mytilene, Greek lyric poet, c. 625/620-580 B.C.)
    Latin for: In wine lies the truth.
  2. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.
    (Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father of the United States, 1743-1826)
  3. Vinum bonum deorum donum.
    (Roman Proverb)
    Latin for: A good wine is a gift from the gods.
  4. With wine and hope, anything is possible.
    (Spanish Proverb)
  5. Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.
    (Italian Proverb)
  6. Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
    (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, 1623-1662)
  7. The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
    (Edward Fitzgerald, English poet, 1809-1883)
  8. Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
    (Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer, 1770-1827)
  9. That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
    (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)
  10. We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
    (Benjamin Franklin, American politician, 1706-1790)
  11. Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
    (Louis Pasteur, French chemist, 1822-1895)
  12. I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
    (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
  13. One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
    (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher, 1533-1593)
  14. [I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing… it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
    (Homer, Greek poet, c. 8th century B.C.)
  15. Spilling a glass of wine is the adult equivalent of letting go of a balloon.
    (Unknown)
  16. Too much of anything is bad, but too much wine is just right.
    (Unknown)
  17. Life is short, buy the good wine.
    (Unknown)
  18. After the rain the grass will grow; after wine, conversation.
    (Swedish Proverb)
  19. Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.
    (Congolese Proverb)
  20. A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves.
    (Irish Proverb)
  21. Wine does not intoxicate a man a man intoxicates himself.
    (Chinese Proverb)
  22. Beautiful grapes often make poor wine.
    (French Proverb)
  23. Wine makes secrets float to the surface.
    (German Proverb)
  24. When wine comes in, modesty leaves.
    (Italian Proverb)
  25. Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.
    (English Proverb)
  26. Never listen to these three advisers: wine, the night, and love.
    (German Proverb)
  27. Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.
    (French Proverb)
  28. Just as a medicine may not cure a serious illness, wine will certainly not dispel your grief.
    (Chinese Proverb)
  29. He who is drunk from wine can sober up, he who is drunk from wealth cannot.
    (African Proverb)
  30. When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
    (Friedrich von Schiller, German playwright, 1759-1805)

More wise quotes can be found in this article.

Wine Quotes for an Evening with Friends

Wine Quotes for an Evening with Friends

Drinking wine alone is only half as much fun as with the right friends. This opinion is expressed in the wine sayings below.

Share the following sayings with your friends or write them on cards so that each of your friends can take one home.

  1. A true friend reaches for your hand… and puts a glass of wine in it.
    (Unknown)
  2. Be kind. Be helpful. Bring wine.
    (Unknown)
  3. Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.
    (Polish Proverb)
  4. Forget kisses, good friends give you a glass of wine.
    (Unknown)
  5. There’s nothing like a good friend, except maybe a good friend with a bottle of wine.
    (Unknown)
  6. Bread and wine start a banquet.
    (French Proverb)
  7. Three glasses of wine end a hundred quarrels.
    (Chinese Proverb)
  8. A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
    (Chinese Proverb)
  9. Sometimes drinking wine with good friends is the best therapy you need.
    (Unknown)
  10. The best wines are the ones we drink with friends.
    (Unknown)

Wine Quotes for Women

Wine Quotes for Women

Ladies, it’s once again time for a wine night! Let’s not forget that sometimes a glass of wine is part of the self-care routine. Whether alone or with friends, in front of the TV or in a bar – just do something good for yourself.

  1. I love long romantic walks in the wine department.
    (Unknown)
  2. A good woman is like a fine red wine, once uncorked, appreciate to the full and never waste a drop. 
    (Unknown)
  3. Before you go home with the next man, better leave him and devote yourself to a good bottle of wine. Wine will never disappoint you.
    (Unknown)
  4. Water teaches us to weep, wine teaches us to sing.
    (Polish Proverb)
  5. If you have money and wine, your friends will be many.
    (Chinese Proverb)
  6. A good man makes you feel sexy and strong. He makes you feel like you can take on the whole world. Oh no, wait. That was wine, wine does that.
    (Unknown)

Wine Quotes for Men

Wine Quotes for Men

In the next list we have collected some wine sayings for men. They revolve around the effects of wine on men and the pleasures associated with it.

Some of the sayings are admittedly dated and therefore probably best used as comic relief rather than taken too seriously.

  1. Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
    (Publius Ovidius Naso, Ancient Roman poet, 43 B.C-17 A.D.)
  2. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
    (Lord Byron, British poet, 1788-1824)
  3. Don’t mix wine and women.
    (Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, 1908-1950)
  4. Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
    (George Herbert, British poet, 1593-1633)
  5. Just like fine wine, you grow better with the years.
    (Unknown)
  6. Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
    (Homer, Greek poet, c. 8th century B.C.)
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