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- lededj - 02-08-2001 Can anyone suggest sites that would talk about the history of wine usage in celebration. I have to give a speech and need some anecdotes. - Drew - 02-08-2001 ·"It is best to rise from life as from the banquet-neither thirsty nor drunken." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C) Here's a site to look at: http://www.intowine.com/wine-toasts.html Here's some I've copied from the web WINE QUOTES If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - A friend - Or being dry - Or lest we should be, by and by - Or any other reason why! - Henry Aldrich 1647-1710 "Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy" --- Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), the Scottish bacteriologist credited with discovering Penicillin in 1928. "Wine is the most civilized thing in the world" --- Ernest Hemingway. "Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it." --- Anonymous "Compromises are for relationships, not wine" --- Sir Robert Scott Caywood "Beer is made by men, wine by God!" --- Martin Luther "Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures."--- Michael Broadbent "Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance." --- Benjamin Franklin [at his first sip of champagne] "Come quickly! I am tasting stars!" --- Dom Perignon "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." --- Pope John XXIII "Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that '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.'" --- Francis Bacon, 1624 "I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." --- W. C. Fields "Wine is life" --- Petronius, Roman writer "He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret." (“claret†is the British term for red Bordeaux) --- Samuel Johnson "Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin." --- Napoleon "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 "Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne." --- Paul Claudel "Life is too short to drink bad wine" --- Anonymous "Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory – but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living." --- Napoleon Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil --- Lord Byron I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. --- Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer Wine … offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. --- Ernest Hemingway My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne. --- John Maynard Keynes [Making wine] is like having children; you love them all, but boy, are they different. --- Bunny Finkelstein ( co-owner of Judd’s Hill Winery) Drew [This message has been edited by Drew (edited 02-08-2001).] - winoweenie - 02-08-2001 Drew, YOU BE THE MAN! Another Hemingway." And the wine is bottled poetry ". describing Napa. Another " Wine is an elixer made to enhance the good, illuminate our shortcomings, and make for fast friends"WW And by the by Ledidj, welcome to the board. [This message has been edited by winoweenie (edited 02-08-2001).] - chittychattykathy - 02-17-2001 Thanks Drew, too busy to check out the site, but I did print your list! Coo' - chittychattykathy - 02-17-2001 BTW, here is my favorite quote; "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." --Old Blue Eyes - Innkeeper - 02-17-2001 Another wonderful source of wine quotations: http://www.stratsplace.com/winequotes.shtml - hotwine - 02-17-2001 And Foodie's book also has a number of good quotes: "Garlic, Wine and Olive Oil" by Thomas Pellechia. |