Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. G. Wodehouse

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

Ovid

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

Ovid

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

Ovid

It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

Cole Porter

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

Coleman Young

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Jack McDevitt

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

Jack Johnson

We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

Jack Kerouac

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Jack Kerouac

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

Jack Kerouac

There's wisdom in wine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

Eric Burdon

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me . My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one

Jack LaLanne

Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.

Jack LaLanne

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

Ivana Trump

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

Greg Gutfeld

The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.

Graeme McDowell

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

Clifton Fadiman

Wine is a civilizing agent.

Clifton Fadiman

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Clifton Fadiman

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Clifton Fadiman

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Clifton Fadiman

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

Jane Seymour

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

Jane Seymour

At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.

George Herbert

Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.

George Herbert

Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.

George Herbert

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

George Herbert

Wine ever paies for his loding.

George Herbert

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

George Herbert

To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.

George Herbert

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.