Quotes about wine
wine men blood
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
wine white looks
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. James Joyce
wine the-end-of-the-day drink
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?
wine vintage twenties
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty. James Russell Lowell
wine writing flavor
Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor. Laurence Sterne
wine july yellow
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July. Henry David Thoreau
wine literature olives
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
wine hands wife
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. Mandy Patinkin
wine power race
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world. Mahatma Gandhi
wine body foundation
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. Johannes Tauler
wine two wife
Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating. Jacques Pepin
wine giving drink
Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks. Louis Pasteur
wine flavor delicate
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.
wine mean play
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery. Lord Chesterfield
wine cups
Fill high the cup with Samian wine! Lord Byron
wine agency way
A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy. John Ciardi
wine differences vineyards
I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret. John Cleese
wine people stuff
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
wine thinking experts
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
wine
You'd better take that wine back. It's a little off. Alan Alda
wine thinking rivers
What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have missed their life - they are projecting their desires in heaven. In heaven there are rivers of wine... who are these people who are imagining rivers of wine? They must have missed here. And there are wish-fulfilling trees. You sit underneath them, desire, and the moment you desire, immediately it is fulfilled. Rajneesh
wine drunk libertarian
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. Thomas Jefferson
wine europe united-states
We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.
wine alcohol vineyards
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
wine thinking luxury
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
wine thinking wine-and-life
Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone
wine meat
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. Robert Herrick
wine too-late may
Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may; The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.
wine vines shrines
A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
wine smell poetry
Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.
wine drink dine
Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
wine rivers rose
Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine. Tanith Lee
wine cups would-be
Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.