Proverbs+about+wine

Proverbs about wine Here in Veneto is generally thought, especially by older people, that wine has a therapeutic function, and we have many proverbs dealing with that. Here you can read some of these proverbs in dialect, with a translation beside (enjoy them):

//"Late e vin fa un bel putin" ( milk and wine grow a good-looking child )// //"Co 'l cavelo trà al bianchin, lassa la dona e tiente al vin" (when your hair turn white, abandon your wife and keep your wine)// //"Chi ga inventà el vin, se no el xe in Paradiso el xe la vissìn" ( the one who has invented wine, might not be in Heaven, but he must be very close to it )// //"Eà mejo medissina xe el siropo de cantina" ( the best cure for any disease is wine )// //"A chi no ghe piase el vin, che Dio ghe toga anca l'acua" ( the one who dilikes wine, may God take away fron him even water)//