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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.
Slipcovers are great because they can be laundered after those all-too-frequent sippy cup and red wine incidents.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.
I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.'
Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.
I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.
It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.
If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it.
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves.
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
I really like the melody "Red Wine Is Good For My Heart" and people respond to it. I decided to put it on the album.
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.
I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.
Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
Traitor!" Hera shouted. "You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much less rule the world.
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
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.
I thought of calorie-counting as a budget: I was happy to skip bread at dinner so I could 'spend' on a glass of wine.
Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!
I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice.
People panic in the kitchen and they don't need to. The first thing to do is to open a nice bottle of wine and relax.
To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be
Acting, like wine, gets better as time goes on. Singing gets better after a certain age. The dancer peaks at 35 or 40.
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
You can wine and dine all around the globe but the joy of coming back home to a meal cooked by your mom is pure bliss.