Diogenes Quotes

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.

I love Far Niente, Cakebread Chardonnay, and I love Opus One!

I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.

I don't do anything by halves and wine is an expensive passion.

I'm not a real big wine drinker. I enjoy wine from a distance.

The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

I'm a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux '82 with a meal or to unwind.

Envy aims very high.

I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I'm a winemaker and a wine collector, so I usually just drink wine.

I have a glass of wine. Red. Generally when I'm cooking.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.