Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

George W. Bush

Wine is like beer except different.

George R. R. Martin

Wine makes all things possible.

George R. R. Martin

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

George Carlin

What wine goes with Captain Crunch?

Frank Sinatra

Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

Fernando Pessoa

Life is good, but Wine is better.

Felicity Kendal

I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

Feist

If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker...

Fay Weldon

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Eugene O'Neill

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

Euripides

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Euripides

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

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.

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!

Graham Greene

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

Gerald Durrell

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

Homer

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

Homer

Wine gives strength to weary men.

Horace

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Horace

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

Horace

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

Horace

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

Horace

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

Horace

Wine unlocks the breast.

Horace

By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

Horace

Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

Guy de Maupassant

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

That one was actually swapped for some wine originally.

Thomas Fuller

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Candice Accola

I do my best to look at the bigger picture and not sweat the small stuff. I make it a point to have alone time. I value that some of life’s best moments happen over a meal with your family or a glass of wine with your friends. And when life seems like a lot to bear, I dance around like a kid until I laugh.