Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geena Davis

[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done."

Eckhart Tolle

I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

Jose Marti

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Jonathan Swift

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Jonathan Swift

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

Kenneth Cranham

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

Khalil Gibran

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

Jonathan Swift

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

Jonathan Swift

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age...

Lois McMaster Bujold

One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

Louis Aragon

What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

Lori Greiner

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

Lord Byron

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

Lord Byron

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

Lord Byron

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

M. F. K. Fisher

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

M. F. K. Fisher

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

Gail Carriger

The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?

Freya Stark

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

Maggie Grace

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

Orson Welles

We will sell no wine before its time.

Omar Khayyam

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Omar Khayyam

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

Omar Khayyam

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Omar Khayyam

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Emilio Estevez

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

Eric Allman

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.