Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

We will sell no wine before its time.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won't mind being 70, but I want people to say, "You're 70?"

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

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.

No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave... Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

50 years old is like springtime to me.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

I've always been old at heart.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.