Quotes about wine
wine today kind
By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank. Alec Waugh
wine dinner walnuts
After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine. Alfred Lord Tennyson
wine passion men
Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine. Alfred Lord Tennyson
wine cures sherry
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. Alexander Fleming
wine people vineyards
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. Alexander Fleming
wine chains wit
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. Alcaeus
wine men holes
Wine is a peep-hole on a man. Alcaeus
wine knives apples
It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop) Aldous Huxley
wine insulting bottles
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative. A. J. Liebling
wine fire bye
By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like. Jane Austen
wine want kingdoms
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help. Jane Austen
wine expression grapes
The older the grapes, sweeter the wine. Janis Joplin
wine sick drink
I was out once and had wine and I got sick to my stomach, and I vowed I would never drink again. Janet Jackson
wine sleep thinking
Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it. Jane Seymour
wine glasses the-end-of-the-day
At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine. Jane Seymour
wine asian program
The Asian airlines have the best wine programs. Alain Ducasse
wine beer gun
Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun. Al Gore
wine men giving
The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals. Charles Babbage
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. Aristophanes
wine men busy
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends. Aristophanes
wine equality bread
I tasted the bread and wine of equality. Anzia Yezierska
wine cups restraint
Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull. Edmund Spenser
wine writing iron
If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music. Colin Meloy
wine sunset air
This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again. Anna Akhmatova
wine glasses sitting
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. Amanda Pays
wine bottles cigar
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it. D. L. Hughley
wine blood names
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Clifton Fadiman
wine agents
Wine is a civilizing agent. Clifton Fadiman
wine rivers vineyards
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Clifton Fadiman
wine bottles
Wine is poetry in a bottle. Clifton Fadiman
wine bottles vineyards
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. Clifton Fadiman
wine soul body
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. Clifton Fadiman