National Drink Wine Day is marked annually on Feb. 18 to celebrate the greatness of grape and create awareness about the fermented alcohol.

"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."

Whether you like red or white, grab a glass of your favorite vino, and celebrate this day with all the other lovers of the alcoholic beverage.

Here are some quotes collected from Brainy Quotes to share on this day:

1. "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

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

3. "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

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

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

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

7. "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

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

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

10. "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

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