Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Aykroyd

Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.

Alec Waugh

We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

Alec Waugh

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

Alexander Fleming

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

Alexander Fleming

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

Alcaeus

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Alcaeus

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

Aldous Huxley

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

Adam Richman

To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.

Alexander Pushkin

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

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

Alison Sweeney

I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.

Ann Druyan

We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,

Andrea Dworkin

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Aesop

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

Aeschylus

And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

Aeschylus

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

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.

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.

Anna Akhmatova

This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.

Amanda Pays

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

D. L. Hughley

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

Clifton Fadiman

Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Alexander Pope

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

Alexander Pope

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

Alexander Pope

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Drew Barrymore

I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

Drew Barrymore

I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!

Donald Barthelme

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.