National Drink Wine Day 2017 Quotes: 13 Sayings To Celebrate The Vino-Themed Holiday

Saturday marks a wonderful holiday... and that's not just the wine talking. It's National Drink Wine Day 2017 on Saturday, which is just about the best observance imaginable for vino-lovers everywhere.

"The purpose of National Drink Wine Day is to spread the love and health benefits of wine," the holiday's website reads. "Wine has played an important role in history, religion and relationships. We embrace the positive benefits of wine such as new friends, reduced risk of heart disease and the enhancement of food and life."

As you go to pour yourself a nice glass of the good stuff Saturday, here are 13 quotes about wine that'll help you celebrate. They're collected from Brainy Quotes, Goodreads and First We Feast.

"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

"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words." — Plautus

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk." — Charles Baudelaire

"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know." — John Keats

"I shall drink no wine before it’s time! OK, it's time." — Groucho Marx

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

"The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it — they're the ones falling down the most." — Jay Leno

"I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence... luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged." — Sylvia Plath

"Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing." — Ernest Hemingway

"Beer is made by men, wine by God." — Martin Luther

"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." — Diogenes

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink, I feel shame! Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this wine, they might be out of work, and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.'" — Jack Handey

"[It] is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool — it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told." — Homer