Wine

• "... good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people." -- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

• "Good wine is a necessity of life for me." -- Thomas Jefferson.

• "I have often wondered what the vintners buy, one half so precious as the goods they sell" -- Omar Khayyam

• "In vino veritas." -- a proverb (Latin for "In wine, truth") quoted by Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium .

• "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." -- Thomas Aquinas.

• "There is a devil in every berry of the grape." -- Koran.

• "WINE n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

• "Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favours what you do." -- Ecclesiastes 9:7

• "Once... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days." -- W. C. Fields, My Little Chickadee.

• "To Alcohol: the cause of, and solution to all of life's problems!" -- Homer Simpson.