Julia Child Quotes

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

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

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.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

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.

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.

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

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

We will sell no wine before its time.

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.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.