Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

Rebecca West

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

Robert Motherwell

The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations...

Samuel Rutherford

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Salvador Dali

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.

Rod Stewart

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Virginia Woolf

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

Washington Irving

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Samuel Johnson

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

John Adams

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

John Locke

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

John Phillips

I was drinking tequila and I woke up in the morning and there was no one there, except the worm and myself were still there.

Sukarno

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

Two Chainz

I'm drunk and high at the same time/Drinking champagne on the airplane.

Pokey Reese

He was on drugs. He did the drinking thing. He used to party a lot. That's in his past now.

Aminatta Forna

I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.

Janet Wu

Had you been drinking at all that night?