Quotes about wine
wine
That one was actually swapped for some wine originally.
wine men secret
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. Horace
wine water drinkers
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
wine age done
Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before. Herbie Mann
wine sea water
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. Herman Melville
wine luxury water
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
wine juice singers
Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers. Henry David Thoreau
wine men poetry
If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.
wine sea tea
Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.
wine government world
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
wine men water
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
wine way drink
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. James Branch Cabell
wine men giving
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented. James Boswell
wine made ache
Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.
wine bottles kind
It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me. J. R. R. Tolkien
wine moon men
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.
wine drunk alcohol
Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine. Elton John
wine expression trying
It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
wine sound music-is
Good music is wine turned to sound Ella Wheeler Wilcox
wine drink decline
Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But all you must drink life's gall.
wine wrath secret
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
wine mean light
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.
wine eye faces
How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his. F. Scott Fitzgerald
wine men dowry
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully. Evelyn Waugh
wine order afterlife
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.
wine age comfort
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
wine bird bottles
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" Eugene Field
wine honest candor
There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.
wine water use
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy. Eugene H. Peterson
wine farewell-to-arms forget
Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad. Ernest Hemingway
wine healthy vineyards
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
wine cycling race
The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
wine vineyards world
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.