Language: Wine-related Idioms and Quotes

Idioms with the word Wine

Wine and dine: to entertain or be entertained with a meal and wine:
We wined and dines them until late into the night.
The cliché "wine, women, and song" is a rhetorical figure of a triad or hendiatris (Hendiatris ( a figure of speech used for emphasis, in which three words are used to express one idea). A modern version of this tripartite motto is "Sex, drugs and rock and roll". The terms correspond to wine, women and song with edgier and updated vices. The term was popularised by the hippies, and composed by Ian Dury in his 1977 song of the same name.
The phrase "days of wine and roses" means a period of happiness and prosperity. It originally comes from the poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by the English writer Ernest Dowson (1867–1900):
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.

Some quotes about Wine

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

When the wine goes in, strange things come out. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Proverb

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~Robert Fripp

Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. ~Jean Paul Richter