Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gerard Depardieu

The wine I produce is not for keeping. Its the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

J. K. Rowling

As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.

J. K. Rowling

Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

H. G. Wells

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

H. L. Mencken

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

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.

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

Samuel Butler

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Alexander Pushkin

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...

William Shakespeare

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

William Shakespeare

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

A. J. Liebling

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

Adam Gopnik

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

Abraham Cowley

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

David Letterman

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

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.

Clement Freud

Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.

Clement Attlee

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.