Quotes about wine
wine water resolve
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. Benjamin Franklin
wine tolerance vines
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
wine poor-richard
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
wine bakers pudding
Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding
wine darkness fool
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness? Avicenna
wine oysters white
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
wine thinking iron
Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins. Arthur Brisbane
wine drink
I never drink... wine. Bela Lugosi
wine cocktails meals
As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes. Bobby Sherman
wine earth lines
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth. Bob Dylan
wine knives bread
You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine. Billy Collins
wine tired zest
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired. Brigitte Bardot
wine men ideas
Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. Aristophanes
wine men good-man
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
wine men busy
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
wine equality bread
I tasted the bread and wine of equality. Anzia Yezierska
wine men laughing
A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine. William Shakespeare
wine needs good-wine
Good wine needs no bush.
wine men names
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
wine vineyards littles
The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
wine vineyards drink
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
wine people welcome
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
wine way helping
the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine. Athenaeus
wine gentleman use
It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.
wine years glasses
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.
wine glasses dust
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!' Arthur Rubinstein
wine writing past
When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television. Antony Beevor
wine collecting enjoy
I enjoy wine collecting and great food. Deep Roy
wine alcohol red
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. Denise Richards
wine thinking abuse
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing Abraham Lincoln
wine heart liquor
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts. Alexandre Dumas
wine simple garden
She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle. Barbara Pym
wine writing funny-wine
When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it Art Buchwald