Quotes about wine
wine life-is found
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Richard P. Feynman
wine balance fundamentals
Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned. Rebecca West
wine reality thinking
I'm still going to enjoy my life off the pitch and I don't think that has interfered with my life on it. In still playing, my body does not allow me to do some of the stuff I did before. The reality is I can't do the two. But I will still go out for a meal and a glass of wine and smoke a cigarette if I feel like it. Russell Latapy
wine men water
God made the water but men made the wine. Victor Hugo
wine sheep lions
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes. Victor Hugo
wine glasses water
One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water. Victor Hugo
wine men water
God made only water, but man made wine. Victor Hugo
wine broken silence
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. Robert Fripp
wine people age
People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar. Rick Kaplan
wine taste rating
I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited. Richard Thaler
wine vines olives
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. Thucydides
wine white firsts
I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought. Tim Ferriss
wine bottles-of-wine bottles
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. Tim Ferriss
wine glasses guy
I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass. Roger Federer
wine imperfection
Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate. Sam Neill
wine home lunch
I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight. Sally Quinn
wine night judgement
He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement. Saadi
wine intelligent men
Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do! Rumi
wine heart soul
Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work. Rumi
wine kissing night
Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation. Rumi
wine age get-better
Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time. Steve Jordan
wine drunk water
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine. Rudyard Kipling
wine aunt watches
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne. Rudyard Kipling
wine serious drink
He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret. Samuel Johnson
wine people intellectual
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper. Samuel Johnson
wine men giving
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives. Samuel Johnson
wine evil giving
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. Samuel Johnson
wine numbers glasses
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? Samuel Johnson
wine want meals
I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine! Saffron Burrows
wine funny-relationship men
I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar. Rodney Dangerfield
wine italian world
There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines. Rocco DiSpirito
wine california perspective
From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be a problem if the wines sold for under $20, many are in fact $75-$150. That's appalling. Robert M. Parker, Jr.
wine differences glasses
The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make. Robert M. Parker, Jr.