Plonk Art's Favourite Wine and Beer Quotes

"Champagne for our real friends and real pain for our sham friends!"

"I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food!!" - Anonymous

"In victory, you deserve champagne, in defeat, you need it". – Napoleon

"Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it." - Anonymous

"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance." - Benjamin Franklin

"Good wine is a necessity of life for me."

"When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing." - Ovid, "The Art of Love" (c. A.D. 8)

"Come quickly! I am tasting stars!" - Dom Perignon (1638-1714) at his first sip of champagne

"There can be no bargain without wine." - Latin saying

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch" W. C. Fields

"If a life of wine, women and song becomes too much, give up the singing."

"You haven't drunk too much wine if you can still lie on the floor without holding on." ~ Dean Martin

"Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art." ~Robert Mondavi, Harvests of Joy

"Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized." Commonsense of Wine~Andre Simon,

"Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it."Shakespeare, Othello

"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap,and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone." Thomas Jefferson, 1800s

"No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine
was ever granted mankind by God."
Plato, 400 BC

"Plant no tree sooner than the vine."
Alcaeus, 580 BC

"Wine in itself is an excellent thing." Pope Pius XII

"Work is the curse of the drinking class"
Oscar Wilde

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"He was a wise man who invented beer."
-- Plato

"Give me a woman that loves beer and I can conquer the world."
-- Kaiser Wilhelm

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
--Frank Zappa

"Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder."
-- Anonymous

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case, coincidence?"
-- Stephen Wright

"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world."
--Kaiser Wilhelm

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
-- Dave Barry

"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety."
Shakespeare, Henry V

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger, or a beer."
Confucius

"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!"
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck