drink wine day 2019 quotes
Monday is National Drink Wine Day. Pictured: Cape Classics wines were served at SUGARCANE raw bar grill on Oct. 12, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York. Monica Schipper/Getty Images for NYCWFF

The day you’ve been waiting all year for is finally here. Whether you like red or white, grab a glass of your favorite vino, and celebrate National Drink Wine Day 2019 on Monday with all the other lovers of the alcoholic beverage out there.

To enjoy the day even more, why not read what others have said about the drink in the past? Here are 14 famous quotes about vino to celebrate National Drink Wine Day 2019:

  1. “Beer is made by men, wine by God.” ― Martin Luther
  2. “In wine, there's truth.” — Pliny the Elder
  3. “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.” ― Louis Pasteur
  4. “If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.” — D.H. Lawrence
  5. “Wine is like the incarnation — it is both divine and human.” — Paul Tillich
  6. “High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.” ― Mark Twain
  7. “A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.” — Kathy Mattea
  8. “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” — Benjamin Franklin
  9. “Wine makes all things possible.” ― George R.R. Martin, “The Mystery Knight”
  10. “To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.” — Clifton Fadiman
  11. “Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  12. “Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there's always red wine.” — Rachael Bermingham
  13. “A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.” ― Clifton Fadiman
  14. “Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.” — Andre Simon
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