![Wine Quotes](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.southernliving.com/thmb/WKB4cNuUp1-PYPQFaSB36W-PTNU=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-961333972-2000-0e0ec9efe0ec470abb3cf5304da7269f.jpg)
Wine is more than just the glass that goes with dinner. It's what gets the conversation going at book clubs, gives any girls' night a reason to run long, and can make cooking feel like an adventure.
From funny sayings to drop onto a birthday card to famous quotes about wine from legendary drinkers—Ernest Hemingway and Elizabeth Taylor appreciated their vino—here are funny wine quotes to break out at happy hour.
![wine glass](https://www.southernliving.com/thmb/uh3D-OKlMcjdYIEHiWWtCHA51Gc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-1460819931-e1e8e507ecd04d02974b14b133c76432.jpg)
01
of 05
Wine Captions With Wisdom
![Funny Short Wine Quote](https://www.southernliving.com/thmb/rw43JBqmfwAv1Q9cA-x-ZVe2eLc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/SL_WINE_1-dcd6b8d6571f47fd86bb11c84eddadde.jpg)
Southern Living
- Wine flies when you're having fun.
- Home is where the wine is.
- Love the wine you're with.
- A meal without wine is called breakfast.
- You look like I need wine.
- I only drink wine on days that end with a "y."
- What do friends and wine have in common? The older, the better.
- Keep calm and pour on.
- Wine is the answer, but I can't remember the question.
- In dog wine, I've only had two glasses.
- Today's forecast: sunny with a chance of wine.
- As long as we have wine, family holidays will be fine.
- Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.
- Trust me, you can dance. – Wine
- Where there’s a wine, there’s a way.
- I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it, in defeat I need it. – Winston Churchill
- Life is too short to drink bad wine.
- Everything happens for a Riesling.
- According to chemistry, alcohol is a solution.
- Wine—because no great story ever started with a salad.
02
of 05
Wine Quotes To Drink To
![Wine is Poetry Quote](https://www.southernliving.com/thmb/yrk87OKTZko7EvkCvoX0NLRLBGU=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/SL_WINE_2-67faea30f7ff4871b2cc8f4c93f038c2.jpg)
Southern Living
- Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine. – Ernest Hemingway
- Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. – Elizabeth Taylor
- Age is just a number. It's irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. – Joan Collins
- I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. – W.C. Fields
- What wine goes with Captain Crunch? – George Carlin
- I drink and I know things. –Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones
- I drink to make other people more interesting. – Ernest Hemingway
- Taverns are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind. – Iris Murdoch
- It’s time to wine down. – Unknown
- Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. – William Shakespeare
- To good eating belongs good drinking. – German Proverb
- The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. – Humphrey Bogart
03
of 05
Wine Sayings For Raising A Glass
![Riesling Wine Quote](https://www.southernliving.com/thmb/jif4Qm6tnYrgPHV63gTmyByt7Fs=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/SL_WINE_3-7221ecfe358047c0bda3c81552a69496.jpg)
Southern Living
- There's a Riesling for everything.
- Wine a little and you'll feel better.
- Happiness is a well-stocked wine cabinet and a closet full of shoes.
- You only live once—so drink great wine.
- Smile, there's wine.
- Why limit happy to an hour?
- Happy hour is the best hour.
- Bring on the bubbly.
- Twinkle twinkle little star. Point us to the nearest bar.
- It’s beginning to look a lot like wine o’clock.
- I’m on cloud wine.
- Cheers to pour decisions.
- Working 9 to wine.
- You had me at Merlot.
- Partners in wine.
- Sip, sip, hooray!
- Love the wine you’re with!
- I’m wining with the best.
- It’s just another Malbec Monday.
04
of 05
Wine Quotes We Can All Relate To
![Oscar Wilde Wine Quote](https://www.southernliving.com/thmb/p1-OUacKG9GoxsduwGoSoyW6Ny0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/SL_WINE_4-9daf566e53d249e38cf03f1181f06925.jpg)
Southern Living
- Work is the curse of the drinking classes. – Oscar Wilde
- Peace, love, and happy hour. – Unknown
- A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. – Louis Pasteur
- Time to be a hero and rescue some wine trapped in a bottle. – Unknown
- A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink. – W.C. Fields
- There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. – Bette Davis
- A bottle of wine was good company. – Ernest Hemingway
- I drink to make other people more interesting. – Ernest Hemingway
- Husbands are like wine. They take a long time to mature.
- What wine goes with Captain Crunch? – George Carlin
05
of 05
Wine Quotes For Special Occasions
![Ernest Hemingway Wine Quote](https://www.southernliving.com/thmb/oEMqsTSq78BJc6lKUJXC-vpthyc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/SL_WINE_5-c928ed857bb04e6fb817d01451a55a58.jpg)
Southern Living
- Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. – Ernest Hemingway
- Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. – Paul Claudel
- I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith
- And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. – Alexander Pope
- If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. – Clifton Fadiman
- Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. – André Simon
- Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art. – Robert Mondavi
- A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Unknown
Tell us why!