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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.
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.
Spritzers are festive yet economical. By adding seltzer and juice, you stretch the number of people a bottle of wine serves.
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
My dream date would be a hike through the woods followed by an outdoor picnic followed by a glass of wine at sunset. Heaven!
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
There are some pretty darn good bottles of wine for $50. I think I can tell that from a bottle of wine that costs $15 or $20.
My daughter was two weeks old when I wrote 'White Wine in the Sun.' I can remember just sobbing and having to leave the room.
Of course I treat myself every now and then. Once a month I might have pizza and red wine and maybe a dessert, but that's it.
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.
Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.
Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.
[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.
Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.
People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.
I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.
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.
During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.
God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.