Wine Quotes - page 31

I've never written for a fasting man; A taste of wine is good before my verse. But sleep is better than a little wine, For when sleeping one thinks my songs are dreams. (Ausonius)
Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden. View quote
Michelle Branch
I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine. View quote
Ricky Gervais
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. View quote
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it. View quote
John Cleese
I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life. View quote
Rachael Ray
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk. View quote
Hermann Hesse
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. View quote
Mandy Patinkin
They the Persians are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking. View quote
Herodotus
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. View quote
Ann Druyan
The hotel wasn't that empty, however. Soon an old man walked unsteadily out of the nearby lounge and plopped himself into a big easy chair beside the piano. There, he slowly sipped his wine and watched me play. I felt distracted and uneasy, trapped on the bench where at any moment he might request one of his favourite tunes, one I most likely did not know how to play. [...] He said me: Who will play your music if you don't do it yourself? (Michael Jones)
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. View quote
Athenaeus
My idea of a fine wine was one that merely stained your teeth without stripping the enamel. View quote
Clive James
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. View quote
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury. View quote
Marc Jacobs
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. View quote
John Osborne
The pulse of war and passion of wonder, The heavens that murmur, the sounds that shine, The stars that sing and the loves that thunder, The music burning at heart like wine, An armed archangel whose hands raise up All senses mixed in the spirit's cup Till flesh and spirit are molten in sunder - These things are over, and no more mine. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
dance mehitabel dance caper and shake a leg what little blood is left will fizz like wine in a keg. View quote
Don Marquis
Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. View quote
Douglas William Jerrold
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things. (John Hodgman)
If wine is fine, everything is fine, and if it's bad, never mind, as long as it is wine. View quote
Julián Hernández
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. View quote
Rachel Cusk
I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. View quote
Pablo Neruda
I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable. View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow