Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Lemieux

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Mario Andretti

In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.

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.

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.

Alexandre Dumas

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

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.

Jeff Cox

Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.

Jack Vance

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

Christopher Hitchens

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?

Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

Gary Vaynerchuk

There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.

Gary Vaynerchuk

When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.