wine used in celebration

[lededj]

Can anyone suggest sites that would talk about the history of wine usage in celebration. I have to give a speech and need some anecdotes.

[Drew]

·"It is best to rise from life as from the banquet-neither thirsty nor drunken."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C)

Here's a site to look at:
http://www.intowine.com/wine-toasts.html

Here's some I've copied from the web

WINE QUOTES

If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons
we should drink:

Good wine -
A friend -
Or being dry -
Or lest we should be, by and by -
Or any other reason why!
- Henry Aldrich 1647-1710


"Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy" --- Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), the Scottish bacteriologist credited with discovering Penicillin in 1928.

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world" --- Ernest Hemingway.

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

"Compromises are for relationships, not wine" --- Sir Robert Scott Caywood

"Beer is made by men, wine by God!" --- Martin Luther

"Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures."--- Michael Broadbent

"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance." --- Benjamin Franklin

[at his first sip of champagne] "Come quickly! I am tasting stars!" --- Dom Perignon

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." --- Pope John XXIII

"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that 'age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.'" --- Francis Bacon, 1624

"I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." --- W. C. Fields

"Wine is life" --- Petronius, Roman writer

"He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret." (“claret” is the British term for red Bordeaux) --- Samuel Johnson

"Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin." --- Napoleon

"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage" --- Thomas Jefferson

"Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne." --- Paul Claudel

"Life is too short to drink bad wine" --- Anonymous

"Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory – but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living." --- Napoleon

Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil --- Lord Byron

I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. --- Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

Wine … offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. --- Ernest Hemingway

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne. --- John Maynard Keynes

[Making wine] is like having children; you love them all, but boy, are they different. --- Bunny Finkelstein ( co-owner of Judd’s Hill Winery)

Drew


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[winoweenie]

Drew, YOU BE THE MAN! Another Hemingway." And the wine is bottled poetry ". describing Napa. Another " Wine is an elixer made to enhance the good, illuminate our shortcomings, and make for fast friends"WW And by the by Ledidj, welcome to the board.

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[chittychattykathy]

Thanks Drew, too busy to check out the site, but I did print your list! Coo'

[chittychattykathy]

BTW, here is my favorite quote;
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
--Old Blue Eyes

[Innkeeper]

Another wonderful source of wine quotations:
http://www.stratsplace.com/winequotes.shtml

[hotwine]

And Foodie's book also has a number of good quotes: "Garlic, Wine and Olive Oil" by Thomas Pellechia.