Wine-Oh Wine Quotes

I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of the reduction of duties on wine, by our national legislature. It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich. It is a prohibition of its use to the middling class of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bain of whiskey.

- THOMAS JEFFERSON

Wine is alive and when you offer it to your fellow-man you are offering him life. That is why there are few better gifts to send than a case or two--or a bottle or two--of wine. It is not that when drinking it, they will recall the donor--if you crave such vulgar satisfactions, it is more efficient to send them a chair with a pair of spurs set in the upholstery. It is that, when drinking it, they will become more conscious of themselves, of their own capacity for joy.

-CLIFTON FADIMAN