Wine is sunlight, held together by water -Galileo Galilei

Wine is the inspiration for lots of people around the world to celebrate and it's a symbol for success and good moments. I think that people lean towards drinking wine when they have something important going on, such as a business party or simply a good family and friends gathering. Probably, few people think of wine as just a drink to get drunk or to forget sorrows; wine equals passion, celebration, good living... the nice life. Many people have a career, or even a hobby out of wine. You can have a glimpse of such kinds of people at the comedy Sideways, starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. This movie shows a great journey of passion for wine and self discovery, portrayed through an amount of events that happen to the main characters throughout their trip.

In this article, I will show you a few wine quotes I found in a little book a friend gave me. It's from Wine Enthusiast Magazine and it's titled Little Book of Wine. Here it goes:

"Wine is bottled poetry."- Robert Louis Stevenson- Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer.

"A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world."- Louis Pasteur- French chemist.

"Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures."- Michael Broadbent- British wine critic, writer and auctioneer.

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

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."- W.C. Fields- American comedian and actor.

"If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?- Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal- Duc de Richelieu, French clergyman, noble and statesman.

"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."- Martin Luther- German theologian.

"When you ask one friend to dine, give him your best wine! When you ask two, the second best will do!- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- American Poet.

"This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk."- Jonathan Swift- Irish cleric, satirist, essayist and poet.

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."- Galileo Galilei- Italian Physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.

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