Wine Quotes - Page 25

• Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Drinking, Secret, Promise

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• Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Judging, Temptation, Age

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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• I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, America, Years

  Benjamin Franklin (1815). “The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself. Together with humorous, moral and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Among which are several not in any American edition”, p.199

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• Give me a bowl of wine,
  In this I bury all unkindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Bacchus, Give Me

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.488

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• Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Soul, Typical, Essentials

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• Wine fills the heart with courage.

  Plato

  Heart

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• It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

  John Calvin

  Gratitude, Men, Use

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• People spend too much time tasting wine; not enough time drinking it.

  Andre Tchelistcheff

  Drinking, People, Enough Time

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• If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.

  Eric Stoltz

  Plato, Dry, Red

  "Fictional character: Chet". "Kicking and Screaming", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Oxygen, Mountain

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• I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.

  Sylvia Plath

  Luxury, Erotic, Feelings

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• I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Looks, Dare

  Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Joy, Family And Friends, Good Times

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• I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.

  Steve Martin

  Drunk, Purpose, Pay

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• I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.

  Dave Matthews

  Morning, Jobs, Father

  "What Does Dave Matthews Eat for Breakfast?". Interview with Jessica Colley, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
  Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
  Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
  I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Giving, Water

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• Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Baby, Boys

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• A true German can't stand the French,
  Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Drink

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• When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

  Joel Stein

  Rose, Taste, Notes

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• At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Oxford, Tutorial, Tongue

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• Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Cheese, Be Good, Wine And Cheese

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• The printed page was like wine to me.

  Robert E. Howard

  Pages, Printed

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• He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

  Saadi

  Night, Judgement, Sober

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.111, Innovations and Information

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• We must pay for the wine we have drunk.

  Georgiana Burne-Jones

  Drunk, Pay

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• The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different technologically. In the year 3000 the universe will be expanding as it will forever, infinitely. We will probe outer space but never find life as evolutionized as ours. We were not created by a deity. We created the deity in OUR image. Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.

  Phyllis Diller

  Song, Space, Years

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