Wine Quotes - Page 14

• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Excellence, Vineyards

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• To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet

  Li Bai

  Night, Heaven, Soul

  Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”

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• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Drinking, Taken

  In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Lying, Drinking

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Water, Resolve, Food And Wine

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.34, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• 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

  Christian, Food, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

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• Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

  Horace

  Worry, Smooth, Brows

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• Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Cooking, Soul

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• Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity.

  Jean-Claude Carriere

  Mean, Quality, Care

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• Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wise, Old Friends, Old Wine

  Charles Kingsley (1831). “Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English".”, p.110

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• One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

  Edward VII

  Smell, Taste, Drink

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• Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Fighting, Gentleman

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• God in his goodness sent the grapes
  To cheer both great and small;
  Little fools will drink too much
  And great fools none at all!

  Walter Scott

  Cheer, Littles, Too Much

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• Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

  Julia Child

  Maturity, Age, Vineyards

  Julia Child “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, Рипол Классик

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• Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

  Horace

  War, Hardship, Poverty

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• Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

  Waverley Root

  Food, Lunch, Cooking

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• I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Jelly, Lord, Grapes

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• The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Want, Rich, Poor

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• To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.

  Dave Chambers

  Art, Memories, Glasses

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• At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

  Benjamin Cheever

  Inspirational, Friendship, Marriage

  Benjamin Cheever (2007). “Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete”, p.16, Rodale

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• All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, Stars, Revenge

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.423, Anchor

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• Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. Ive never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.

  Tom Seaver

  Team, Player, Years

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• If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable.

  Jann Arden

  Vegetables, Fruit, Vodka

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• Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Prayer, Moon, Dew

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• With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

  H. G. Wells

  Wife, Degrees, Tables

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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