Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Paul

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

Jim Harrison

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Jim Harrison

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Jerry Seinfeld

I love the day date. No wine, no shower.

Jerome K. Jerome

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

Jerome K. Jerome

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

Jerome K. Jerome

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

Jill Clayburgh

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I do have some leftover chicken and pasta. (Grace) And wine?...That’s acceptable (Julian) Look, buster, I’m not your cooking wench. Mess with me and I’ll feed you Alpo. (Grace)

Sherwood Boehlert

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

Nigella Lawson

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

Rainer Maria Rilke

It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)

Shane Claiborne

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

Sean Connery

Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

Sienna Miller

[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!

Scott Eastwood

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

Oscar Wilde

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Oscar Wilde

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Michel de Montaigne

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Michel de Montaigne

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Michel de Montaigne

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Michel de Montaigne

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Michel de Montaigne

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Michel de Montaigne

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

Mark Twain

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

Michael Caine

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

Mick Fleetwood

Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Mark Carwardine

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

John Milton

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.