Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

George Herbert

The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

Fran Lebowitz

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

George Washington

My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

George Washington

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

George Meredith

For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instills, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which over flows To lift us with him as he goes.

George Meredith

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

Hippocrates

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

Hippocrates

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

Guy de Maupassant

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

Gina Barreca

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

George Eliot

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

George Eliot

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

Julia Child

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

Julia Child

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

Homer

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

Homer

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

Homer

Over the wine-dark sea.

Homer

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

Steven Moffat

Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

Robert Burns

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.

Ridley Scott

There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

John Calvin

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

John Calvin

In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

Garrison Keillor

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

George Crabbe

Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

George Crabbe

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

Geena Davis

[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done."

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Helen Rowland

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Hilaire Belloc

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.