Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen MacNeil

There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

Karen MacNeil

A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.

Karen MacNeil

Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

Karen MacNeil

You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big voluptuous chardonnay is like Marilyn Monroe -round, bosomy - you can remember that chardonnay, If you say a wine is snappy and lively, like Robin Williams, that's very different than the Anthony Hopkins of wine - urbane, sophisticated, measured, considered.

Judith Thurman

Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

Joseph Conrad

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Kate Moss

It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.

John Keats

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

John Keats

Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

John Keats

Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all at once Pour into the wide hollows of my brain, And deify me, as if some blithe wine Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk, And so become immortal.

Julio Iglesias

Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.

Julie Garwood

In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.

Jules Renard

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

Julius Caesar

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

Oscar Wilde

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Paul Tillich

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

John Searle

Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

Martin Luther

[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.

Martin Luther

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

Nick Harkaway

I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.

Nancy Johnson

America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

P. G. Wodehouse

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

Ovid

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

Ovid

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

Ovid

It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

Matt Groening

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

Mary Wortley Montagu

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

Oswald Chambers

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Oswald Chambers

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Oswald Chambers

When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

Paul Henderson

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

Pat Conroy

It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.