Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

H. L. Mencken

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

George Herbert

Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.

George Herbert

Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.

George Herbert

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

George Herbert

Wine ever paies for his loding.

George Herbert

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

George Herbert

To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.

George Herbert

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

George Herbert

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

George Herbert

The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

Jessica Pare

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

Hunter S. Thompson

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

Howard Rheingold

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

Honore de Balzac

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

Horace

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

Horace

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

Homer

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

Homer

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

Homer

Over the wine-dark sea.

Homer

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

Eric Burdon

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me . My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one

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?

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.

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

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

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.

Ivana Trump

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.