Wine Quotes - page 5

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! (Hilaire Belloc)
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine. View quote
Richard Steele
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Köln there was never a knight Had a merrier life than mine. View quote
Charles Kingsley
If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea. View quote
Alan Watts
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. View quote
Omar Khayyám
By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like. View quote
Jane Austen
The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play Through the meadow land toward a closing door A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before. View quote
Johnny Mercer
What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. View quote
Andrew Marvell
One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
If I go before I'm old, Oh brother of mine please don't forget me if I go. Bartender please, fill my glass for me? With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free, after three days in the ground. (Dave Matthews)
There are two types of wine essentially, and everybody knows this. There's the one where you drink it and go, "Mmmm, well that's ok, can we get 8 of those please, give us 8 of those." There's the other one, you know, where you go "Ga... bt... Jesus, WHAT is that?" Very, very occasionally I concede you will hit a subtle one. You know, where you go "Ga... ba... ah, actually that's not that bad, that is. It's quite nice." View quote
Dylan Moran
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. View quote
William Blake
Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) View quote
Aristophanes
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. View quote
Sarah Bernhardt
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. View quote
John Masefield
If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from. View quote
Arsène Wenger
I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me. View quote
Charles Manson
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)
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. View quote
Louis Pasteur
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again. View quote
Richard Crashaw
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg