Wine Quotes - page 33

Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine. (Jonathan Swift)
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. View quote
Plutarch
We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born. View quote
Carl Jung
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. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. View quote
Thomas More
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless. View quote
Aristophanes
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. View quote
Aristophanes
Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. View quote
Aristophanes
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
To thee of All Being /A te, de l'essere The First Cause immense /Principio immenso, Of matter and spirit, /Materia e spirito, Of reason and sense /Ragione e senso; Whilst in the full goblet /Mentre ne' calici Shall sparkle the wine, /Il vin scintilla So bright the pupil /Si'come l'anima The souls of men shine, /Ne la pupilla Whilst earth still is smiling, /Mentre sorridono And the sun smiles above, /La terra e il sole And men are exchanging /E si ricambiano Their sweet words of love, /D'amor parole Thrills mystic of Hymen /E corre un fremito Through high mountains course, /D'imene arcano And broad plains are heaving /Da' monti e palpita With life's fertile force, /Fecondo il piano; On thee in verse daring, /A te disfrenasi From tight rein released, /Il verso ardito, On thee I call, Satan, /Te invoco, o Satana The King of the feast. /Re del convito. View quote
Giosuè Carducci
If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette. (Loudon Wainwright III)
Thus the ideal of democracy is reached at last: it has become a psychic impossibility for a gentleman to hold office under the Federal Union, save by a combination of miracles that must tax the resourcefulness even of God. The fact has been rammed home by a constitutional amendment: every office-holder, when he takes oath to support the Constitution, must swear on his honour that, summoned to the death-bed of his grandmother, he will not take the old lady a bottle of wine. View quote
H. L. Mencken
At the moment, an unpleasant feeling presses on my stomach, as though the new year of the unified, national Germany has assisted in the advent of an all too torch-parade-like sparkling wine bacchanal. View quote
Paul Klee
You've been nipping at cook's wine!! View quote
Tamora Pierce
I don't believe you until you tell me, do you really believe, for example, if they say they are Catholic, "Do you really believe that when a priest blesses a wafer, it turns into the body of Christ? Are you seriously telling me you believe that? Are you seriously saying that wine turns into blood?" View quote
Richard Dawkins
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
I think the French are interested only in food and wine', Vicente said. 'I can think of something else,' Sharpe said, and received a stern look from Sarah. 'There is no food here, ... just higher things. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions, - sweeter days are thine. View quote
Helen Hunt Jackson
Humans! They lived in the world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and anzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time... (Terry Pratchett)
I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get. View quote
Zlatan Ibrahimović
A long, soft sigh, one of those very Italian sighs that express so much, that say "Ah, signor, if only this world were an ideal world, what would I not give to be able to do as you ask, we should sit together in the Tuscan sunshine, you and I, just two men together, and we should drink a bottle of the good red wine, and we should sing, ah, how we should sing." View quote
Alan Coren
Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the cheering wine: There's life and strength in every drop,-thanksgiving to the vine! View quote
Albert Gorton Greene
The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy. View quote
Alec Waugh