Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

Henry David Thoreau

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

Henry David Thoreau

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

Henry David Thoreau

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Henry David Thoreau

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Groucho Marx

You've forgotten those June nights at the Riviera...the night I drank Champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have been more but you were wearing inner soles.

Groucho Marx

I shall drink no #‎ wine before it's time! OK, it's time.

Graham Chapman

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us? Brought peace!

Graham Greene

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

Gerald Durrell

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

Homer

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

Homer

Wine gives strength to weary men.

Horace

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Horace

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

Horace

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

Horace

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

Horace

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

Horace

Wine unlocks the breast.

Horace

By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

Horace

Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

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.

James Branch Cabell

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

James Boswell

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

James Boswell

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

Jessica Pare

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

Gilles Marini

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Howard Rheingold

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

Honore de Balzac

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

Itzhak Perlman

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

Isak Dinesen

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

Isak Dinesen

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?