Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Helen Rowland

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Hilaire Belloc

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

Heraclitus

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Heraclitus

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Henry James

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Henry Fielding

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

Henry Fielding

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Heinz Guderian

New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

Khalil Gibran

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

Jonathan Swift

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

Jonathan Swift

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age...

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

Orson Welles

We will sell no wine before its time.

Omar Khayyam

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Omar Khayyam

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

Omar Khayyam

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Omar Khayyam

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Michael Caine

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

Mick Fleetwood

Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Mark Carwardine

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

Mandy Patinkin

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

Mahatma Gandhi

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

Johannes Tauler

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

Jimi Hendrix

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

Jim Himes

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.