Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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.

John Cleese

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. 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.

Omar Khayyam

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

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 Allman

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

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.

Neil MacGregor

In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

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?

Joely Fisher

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

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.

Karl Marx

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

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.

Julia Child

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

Julia Child

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

Julia Child

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.