Quotes about wine
wine rivers vineyards
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Clifton Fadiman
wine bottles
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
wine bottles vineyards
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
wine soul body
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
wine doe quiet
I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it. David Steel
wine water brain
How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness? David Chalmers
wine lips connoisseur
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. Ambrose Bierce
wine sacrifice skulls
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!
wine definitions connoisseur
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
wine men next
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
wine yield mad
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697
wine sunset air
This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again. Anna Akhmatova
wine glasses sitting
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. Amanda Pays
wine men intoxicated
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. Alfred de Musset
wine thinking yield
Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.
wine smell apples
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine. Amy Smart
wine vegetables meals
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once. Anthony Burgess
wine orange bird
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
wine men relaxation
Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.
wine divine transport
Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine. Anacreon
wine sleep soul
For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest.
wine years missing
Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one. Alton Brown
wine enemy one-day
Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.
wine play acting
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. William Shakespeare
wine gambling dice
Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.
wine son men
A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
wine cups hot
A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.
wine broken silence
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. Robert Fripp
wine people age
People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar. Rick Kaplan
wine taste rating
I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited. Richard Thaler
wine vines olives
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. Thucydides
wine giving world
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible. Robert Mondavi
wine
Wine to me is all about sharing.