Mark Twain Wine Quotations

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.