Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Laurence Sterne

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

Libba Bray

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

Friedrich Schiller

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Friedrich Schiller

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

Frederick Soddy

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

Luc de Clapiers

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

Louis Pasteur

Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.

Louis Pasteur

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

Lord Chesterfield

Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

Jim Wallis

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.

John Ciardi

A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

John Cleese

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

John Cleese

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Alan Alda

You'd better take that wine back. It's a little off.

Jacques Lemaire

You could see how much they wanted to win this.

Pat Riley

You've got to have some wins like that.

All we've got to do is win games.

James Franco

The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

Napoleon Hill

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

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.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

Og Mandino

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.