Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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)

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.

Don Johnson

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Dylan Thomas

This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

Diogenes

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay.

Diogenes

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

Dean Martin

When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.

Chuck Palahniuk

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

Christopher Marlowe

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

Andrea Navedo

I try to get seven to eight hours of sleep. Wash my hands a lot, take a few supplements, like omega-3 and vitamin D. When I feel a cold coming on, I pop some zinc. I do my best to eat a low-sodium, high-fiber diet. I drink mostly water or coconut water. I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

Andrea Navedo

I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

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.

Clifton Fadiman

Wine is a civilizing agent.