Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifton Fadiman

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

David Letterman

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

Ambrose Bierce

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Ambrose Bierce

Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

Ambrose Bierce

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Ambrose Bierce

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Cole Porter

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

Coleman Young

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Clement Freud

Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.

Clement Attlee

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Cyril Connolly

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Cornelia Funke

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

Colin Meloy

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.

Amy Smart

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

Anthony Burgess

The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

Anthony Burgess

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

Anacreon

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

Anacreon

For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

Alton Brown

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

Alton Brown

Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

Chuck Palahniuk

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

Christopher Marlowe

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

Andrea Navedo

I try to get seven to eight hours of sleep. Wash my hands a lot, take a few supplements, like omega-3 and vitamin D. When I feel a cold coming on, I pop some zinc. I do my best to eat a low-sodium, high-fiber diet. I drink mostly water or coconut water. I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

Andrea Navedo

I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

David Steel

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

David Chalmers

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

That one was actually swapped for some wine originally.

Thomas Fuller

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Erin Morgenstern

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

Cassandra Clare

[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

Caroline Knapp

But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.