Quotes about wine
wine glasses political
The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine. Eric Alterman
wine exercise dust
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated. Epictetus
wine world blisters
I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now Emily Dickinson
wine thinking grapes
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become. Henri Nouwen
wine beer beer-and-wine
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
wine men flattery
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly. Helen Rowland
wine men giving
If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste. Hilaire Belloc
wine ignorance evening
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. Heraclitus
wine ignorance relax
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
wine violet florence
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. Henry James
wine fire youth
Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Henry Fielding
wine enemy firsts
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
wine tactics weapons
New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles. Heinz Guderian
wine want rich
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
wine drink
A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
wine drug taste
Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb. Jimi Hendrix
wine beer oysters
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika. Jim Himes
wine dying vines
Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.... Jim Morrison
wine mind information
You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't. John Hurt
wine experts magazines
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things. John Hodgman
wine bored so-bored
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. Benjamin Disraeli
wine feelings frogs
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. Edgar Allan Poe
wine who-we-are made
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are Eduardo Galeano
wine men secret
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
wine water drinkers
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
wine age done
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. Herbie Mann
wine sea water
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. Herman Melville
wine luxury water
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
wine juice singers
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
wine men poetry
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.
wine sea tea
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.
wine government world
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
wine men water
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.