Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hector Hugh Munro

By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.

Henry David Thoreau

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.

Henry David Thoreau

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Pat Paulsen

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

Pat Paulsen

I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.

Pat Paulsen

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

Pat Paulsen

Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

Pat Paulsen

I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

Pat Paulsen

Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'

Pablo Neruda

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

Plautus

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus

This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]

Plato

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Plato

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Plato

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Paula Deen

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.

Paula Deen

I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!

Laurie Lee

The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.

Lisa See

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

John Shelton Reed

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

John Ray

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

James Joyce

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

James Joyce

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

James Russell Lowell

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Laurence Sterne

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

Friedrich Schiller

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

Sherwood Boehlert

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

Nigella Lawson

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

Penn Jillette

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

Paulo Coelho

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.