Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hippocrates

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

Hippocrates

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

Hillary Clinton

Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

Hillary Clinton

I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Hillary Clinton

Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we've come from behind, we've broken the tie, and, thanks to you, it's full speed on to the White House.

Hillary Clinton

From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it...You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.

Herbert Hoover

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

Evgeni Plushenko

It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.

Evelyn Waugh

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Evelyn Waugh

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

Evelyn Waugh

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

Evelyn Waugh

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Evan Esar

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

Eugene Field

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Eugene Field

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

Eugene Field

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

Eugene H. Peterson

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

Ernest Hemingway

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

Ernest Hemingway

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

Ernest Hemingway

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Ernest Hemingway

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

Ernest Hemingway

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Ernest Hemingway

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Ernest Hemingway

A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Erwin Rommel

I didn't die nor win.

Jhonen Vasquez

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

Jhonen Vasquez

I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

Jhumpa Lahiri

She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

Groucho Marx

You've forgotten those June nights at the Riviera...the night I drank Champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have been more but you were wearing inner soles.

Groucho Marx

I shall drink no #‎ wine before it's time! OK, it's time.

Graham Chapman

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us? Brought peace!