Quotation Explorer - 'Wine'

CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died. - Ambrose Bierce
Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.They have an impact like that of gravity.They heavy you like few tons of concrete,Therefore,Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's. - Nomthandazo Tsembeni
It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made. - Neel Burton
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. - W.C. Fields
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. - Henry David Thoreau
Come, lovers.Come join us.Bring your empty cupsand sit by the fire.Let Khayyam and Hafezreveal to you what you feel.Rumi will pour the wine and I will listen. - Kamand Kojouri
As the wine matures in the wine bottle so doth the minds of men and woman through experience - Bradley Elis
You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster. - Dominic Riccitello
In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine. - Patricia Storace
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. - Robert Fripp
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. - Basil Bunting
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. - Colette
We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat. - Roman Payne
Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies. - Roman Payne
Cooking without wine is like sex alone. You may get the job done, but you don't really care once it's over. - Andrew Grey
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow. - Omar Khayyám
With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows. - Michele Jennae
I want to die.I want die by drowning in love.I want to die by becoming drunk, by drinking the pure wine of love.I want to die in an accident, By falling in love andbreaking my heart. I want to die by losing in the game of love. - Debasish Mridha
There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! - Kenny Chesney
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color. - Charles Bowden
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. - Alfred Hitchcock
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. - Thomas Jefferson
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. - Heraclitus
Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill. - Marty Rubin
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. - Louis Pasteur
A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5) - Edna Hatlestad Hong
Saying goodbye to a lover is like giving them the last wine drop in a glass about to break. - Farid F. Ibrahim
If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends. - Virginia Woolf
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. - Ovid
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. - Plutarch
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? - Cyril Connolly
Her touch is like doing simple mathWhen she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothesThere is a red ink, like a sparkling red wine, adding colorsDividing body, remembering gods, without multiplying - Santosh Kalwar
I am telling himwhat he wants to hear: antsdying of love underthe constellation of the dandelion.I swear that a white rose,sprinkled with wine, sings.I am laughing, tiltingmy head carefullyas if checking an invention.I am dancing, dancingin astonished skin, inan embrace that creates me. - Wisława Szymborska
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Benjamin Franklin
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. - Samuel Johnson
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing... - Hiroko Sakai
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope. - Austin O'Malley
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride! - Theresa Hollis
I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine. - Kyril Bonfiglioli
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. - Seán O'Casey
I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra - Ben Mitchell
Song of Solomon 1:2- Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. - Anonymous
WINE, n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. - Ambrose Bierce
If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine. - Matshona Dhliwayo
And then comes the realization. That although a house was taken from you, you can still build a home in a wine jar. - Camilo Garzon
A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age. - Habeeb Akande
I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man. - Santosh Kalwar
Red wine is different from white. Removing the grape skin does all the difference. - Viola Soul Calibur
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. - Bible
Hey Man, I'm drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays.
Friendship is the wine of life. - Edward Young
There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. - M.F.K. Fisher
Love is more potent than wine; one drop can intoxicate you for a lifetime. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. - Aristophanes
I have drunken deep of joy,And I will taste no other wine tonight. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. - Charles Caleb Colton
There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.
Come to the orchard in Spring.There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers.If you do not come, these do not matter.If you do come, these do not matter. - Jalaluddin Rumi
You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe , or start collecting model aeroplanes - Michel Houellebecq
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds. - Chinese proverb
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. - Cuban Proverb
Chris enjoys spending quality time while cooking, wine tasting, attending opera, playing golf, and practicing martial arts JiuJitsu. - Chris Salamone
In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind. - Neel Burton
guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine - Fay Weldon
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. - Nikos Kazantzakis
Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods,no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine. - Anaïs Nin
Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again. - Virginia Alison
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
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God’s face when it’s bitter - Gustave Flaubert
A glass of water with peace is better than several glasses of wine with trouble. Here's a glass of water . . . Cheers to the good life - Constance Friday
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught. - Henry James
When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap. - Dimitris Mita
The ideal of a well-stocked mind aiming at excellence in all walks of life has been replaced by the dream of a well-stocked wine cellar, the cellar now being a specially made wine cooler strategically placed in one’s house, to be viewed by even the most unobservant visitor. - Dimitris Mita
Love is like wine, it gets better everyday. - Vann Chow
Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain. - Till Lindemann
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! - Leo Buscaglia
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! - William Shakespeare
The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. - Marty Rubin
Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there's always red wine. - Rachael Bermingham
The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines. - D.H. Lawrence
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. - Mark Twain
Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given. - Álvaro de Campos
What chance does logic have against a glass of wine and a kiss? - Marty Rubin
Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Wine is stronger than reason. - Marty Rubin
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. - Thomas Jefferson
Shaga: How would you like to die, little man?Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. - George R.R. Martin
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. - George Gordon Byron
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark. - Ovid
With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity. - Rae Lori
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz
The artist's greatest creation beganthe night he washed his memory of his failuresrubbed opium on his lipsdrank the wine that women offered himand lay down and wept. - Roman Payne
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. - Charles Baudelaire
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. - Homer
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. - Charles Caleb Colton
Men are not naturally faithful creatures. They have an ego that is in constant need of stroking and usually anything in a skirt fits that need. I never feel the need to make a man jealous in retribution for his infidelity. I simply pick up the wine and find a new taster... - Virginia Alison
Love is like wine, drink it as you rhyme. - Santosh Kalwar
Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up. - Shannon Celebi
The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. - Bible
Ideas are like wine. They get better when they have time to mature. - R.M. ArceJaeger
Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips. - Jennifer Webb
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. - Alice May Brock
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. - Benjamin Johnson
Wine is bottled poetry - Robert Louis Stevenson
Is there a chance?A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?A reason to fight?Is there a chance you may change your mind?Or are we ashes and wine? - A Fine Frenzy
I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. - Ernest Hemingway
Love! In this world of pain, you're my vintage wine. - Debasish Mridha
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
Your not old you are like wine, you get better over time."-Melissa Mona - Haileigh Horton
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. - John Keats
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