Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

Salvador Dali

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Rod Stewart

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Voltaire

Wine is the divine juice of September.

William Butler Yeats

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

William Butler Yeats

even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

Winston Churchill

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

Walter Raleigh

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

Wolfgang Puck

America has undergone a total food and wine revolution.

Mandy Patinkin

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

James Joyce

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

John Ciardi

A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

John Cleese

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

John Cleese

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Alan Alda

You'd better take that wine back. It's a little off.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

Orson Welles

We will sell no wine before its time.

Omar Khayyam

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Omar Khayyam

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

Omar Khayyam

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Emilio Estevez

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

Eric Alterman

The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.

Epictetus

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

NeNe Leakes

Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

Rachel Nichols

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

Jodi Picoult

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

John Green

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

Caroline Knapp

But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

Julia Child

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.