Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Johnson

We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

Jack Kerouac

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Jack Kerouac

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

Jack Kerouac

There's wisdom in wine.

Greg Gutfeld

The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.

Graeme McDowell

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

Thomas Fuller

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Karl Marx

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

Julia Child

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

Julia Child

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

Julia Child

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

Julia Child

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

Julia Child

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

Julia Child

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

Julia Child

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

Julia Child

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Julia Child

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

Julia Child

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

Julia Child

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

Jessica Pare

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

Gilles Marini

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

That one was actually swapped for some wine originally.

Horace

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

Horace

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

Herbie Mann

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Herman Melville

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Herman Melville

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

Henry David Thoreau

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

Henry David Thoreau

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

Henry David Thoreau

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

Henry David Thoreau

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Henry David Thoreau

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.