Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Claudel

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Paul Celan

With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode God near, he sang, it was our last ride over the hurdled humans. They cowered when they heard us overhead, they wrote, they lied our neighing into one of their image-ridden languages.

Oscar Wilde

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Oscar Wilde

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Mark Twain

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

Mark Twain

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

Mark Twain

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Mark Twain

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Nikki Sanderson

My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

Nick Hornby

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

John Green

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

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.

Michel de Montaigne

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Michel de Montaigne

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Michel de Montaigne

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Michel de Montaigne

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Michel de Montaigne

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Michel de Montaigne

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

Mark Twain

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

Mario Lemieux

Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.

Mario Lemieux

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.