Wine Quotes - page 2

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood. (Graham Greene)
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. View quote
Colin Powell
Wine is bottled poetry. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair Wine scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.... View quote
Jack Kerouac
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, 'Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.' View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. View quote
Henry James
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine. View quote
Karen Blixen
Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka. View quote
Viktor Chernomyrdin
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. (Ben Jonson)
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
When the wine goes in, strange things come out. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past. View quote
Mario Lemieux
Language is wine upon the lips. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles. View quote
Heinz Guderian
Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not; Look at pot. (Ogden Nash)
Who loves not women, wine and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. View quote
Martin Luther
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. View quote
Jim Harrison
Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating. View quote
Jacques Pepin
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. View quote
Cecilia Bartoli