Roman Wine Quotes - Quotations about Wine

Wine quotes are great for signatures on email messages, for tag lines when writing letters to friends, you name it! Here are some of my favorite quotes regarding wine and grapes. Send me an email if you've got more to add!

The Roman Empire treasured wine for 1,000 years. It stands to reason that the writers of Rome were plentiful in their praise of this much loved beverage!

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
-- Horace, 65BC

"When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing."
-- Ovid 17AD, The Art of Love

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."
-- Ovid 17AD

"Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion."
-- Ovid 17AD

"Wine prepares the heart for love unless you take too much."
-- Ovid 17AD

"It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies."
-- Ovid 17AD

"It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas)."
-- Pliny the Elder, 79AD

"In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)"
-- Pliny the Elder, 79AD

"On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old.
'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena."
- Athenaeus, 200AD

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