Wine Quotes - Page 8

• I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.

  Gerald Asher

  Evaluation, Watches, Bottles

  Gerald Asher (2012). “A Carafe of Red”, p.146, Univ of California Press

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• Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Love, Sexy, Valentine

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• The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

  Jim Harrison

  Giving, Advice, Red

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• Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funny, Marriage, Glasses

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• My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

  Robert Mondavi

  Mother, Years, Water

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• Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

  Blaise Pascal

  Giving, Littles, Too Much

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

  Ernest Dowson

  Death, Dream, Flower

  'Vitae Summa Brevis'

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• Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Glasses, Looks

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• When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

  Amy Lowell

  Love, Girlfriend, Mouths

  Amy Lowell (2004). “Selected Poems”

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Music, Morning

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• Free thyself from the mighty attraction-
  The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.
  Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Ocean, Cry

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1894, Manonmani Publishers

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• To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Food, Cooking, Guests

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• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Average, Ideas, People

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 14, 2010

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• When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Two, Giving, Second Best

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

  Diogenes

  Drinking, Drink, Drinking Funny

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Water

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• With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Years, Giving, Age

  "Three Worlds". Poem by John Townsend Trowbridge,

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• I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny Relationship, Men, Wife

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• The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Drinking, Hobbies, Moral

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Drinking, Food

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Scotch, Alcohol

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.

  Leon Adams

  Believe, Fake, Trying

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• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

  Ovid

  Courage, Drinking, Passion

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• In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Song, Order, Hardest

  "TELEVISION; The Illustrious Lunchers At the Algonquin Recalled" by Herbert Mitgang, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 1987.

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• Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

  Evelyn Waugh

  Age, Comfort, Philosopher

  Evelyn Waugh (1947*). “Wine in peace and war”

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