More Wine Quotes

Writers, statesmen, and philosophers have been talking about wine almost as long as history has been recorded. Here are some more notable wine quotes:

• "The wine cup is the little silver well, where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell." ~ William Shakespeare
• "A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Wine.The intellectual part of the meal." ~ Alexandre Dumas
• "Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil." ~ Lord Byron
• "Beer is made by men, wine by God." ~ Martin Luther

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