Wine Quotes - Page 17

• What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?

  William Gurnall

  Reading, Mean, Men

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• But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty.

  Avicenna

  Strong, Taken, Character

  Avicenna, Oskar Cameron Gruner (1984). “The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna”

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• It seems that researchers at Colorado University say wine may help people lose weight. It's not the wine directly that causes the weight loss, it's all the walking around you do trying to find your car.

  Jay Leno

  Loss, People, Car

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• Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strausswaltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.

  Laurence Stallings

  Home, Kissing, Men

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• I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.

  Roque Dalton

  Running, Believe, Angel

  Roque Dalton (1996). “Small Hours of the Night: Selected Poems of Roque Dalton”

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• I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

  Deep Roy

  Collecting, Enjoy, Great Food

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• My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

  Tim Federle

  Mother, Book, Clubs

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• I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Glasses, Two, Alcohol

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• You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Firsts, Knows, Ifs

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• Music and Wine are one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Musician

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

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• Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Dream, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• now
  I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
  Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
  When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Ephesians, Sound

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.143, Hayes Barton Press

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• What if the Church and the State
  Are the mob that howls at the door!
  Wine shall run thick to the end,
  Bread taste sour.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Government, Doors

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.80, Hayes Barton Press

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• While man can still his body keep
  Wine or love drug him to sleep,
  Waking he thanks the Lord that he
  Has body and its stupidity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Men, Stupidity

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

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  The bed of love, that in the imagination
  Had seemed to be the giver of all peace,
  Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,
  And as soon finished.

  William Butler Yeats

  Imagination, Bed, Cups

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

  Charles Babbage

  Men, Giving, Office

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Light, Long, Quality

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 2,

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• Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Men, Average

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• Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friedrich Schiller (1800). “The Piccolomini, Or the First Part of Wallenstein, a Drama in Five Acts. Translated from the German of Frederick Schiller by S. T. Coleridge”, p.121

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• The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

  Jamie Goode

  Conscious, Score, Rating

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• Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?

  Jamie Goode

  Drinking, Two, People

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• People who say that they can't appreciate a great wine generally haven't tasted one

  Kent Bach

  People, Appreciate, Havens

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• Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

  Kent Bach

  Drinking, Doe, Pleasure

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• Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

  Kent Bach

  Pleasure, Position, Expertise

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• Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

  Tim Crane

  Made, Artifacts, Made It

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