"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 Hemmingway

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

"Compromises are for relationships, not wine." ---Sir Robert Scott Caywood

"Drinking 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 XXXIII

"I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." ---W.C. Fields

"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

"Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil." ---Lord Byron

"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne." ---John Maynard Keynes

"And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile." ---Alexander Pope

"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover." ---Clifton Fadiman

"When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking." ---Alexis Lichine

"And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard." ---Genesis 9:20

"I have enjoyed great health and a great age because everyday since I can remember, I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles." ---Attributed to a Bishop Of Seville

"When asked when he ever confused a Bordeaux with a Burgundy in a blind tasting, British Wine Legend Harry Waugh replied: "Not since lunch."

Bessie Braddock, a well known socialist in England, attended a dinner party at which she was seated next to Winston Churchill who had had quite a bit to drink. She said to him, "Winston, you are drunk!" He replied, "Madame, I may be drunk, but you are ugly, and tomorrow I will be sober."

"Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools
When e'er we let the wine rest.
Here's death to Prohibition's fools,
And every kind of vine-pest" --- Jamrach Holobom

"Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. It's life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die." ---Attributed to the late Julia Child