Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Pym

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Art Buchwald

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Brian Schmidt

I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.

Diane Keaton

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

Edgar Allan Poe

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.

Edward Abbey

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Alexander Fleming

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

Don Johnson

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Jane Goodall

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Bob Dylan

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Charles Bukowski

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Douglas Hyde

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hofstadter

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

Barbara Mertz

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Eckhart Tolle

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.