Some nice wine quotes I spotted over at wrathofgrapes.com

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
Thomas Becon (1512-1567), Catechism, 375

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
‘I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine’.
G.K. Chesterton(1874-1936), Wine and Water

A German wine label is one of the things life’s too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation’s love of detail and organization.
Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one’s present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason.
 Latin saying

God made only water, but man made wine.
Victor Hugo, 1856

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
Louis Pasteur

La vita é troppe breve per non bere vino buono.
 Italian saying, seen by me in Enoteca della Langhe winebar, Dublin