A Quote by Winston Churchill

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill
British - Statesman
November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965

It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?

Amy Winehouse

The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

Annie Jacobsen

I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

I love champagne, but I don't have champagne every night. If I go out, and I want to have a drink, I'll have a glass of champagne.

Lori Loughlin

Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.

Allyson Schwartz

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Walter Savage Landor

Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.

Robert Mondavi

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

Guy de Maupassant

Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.

Madame de Pompadour

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

Gary Vaynerchuk

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

Sam Shepard

When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.

Claudio Ranieri

The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

Jean Drapeau

I used to drink straight Hennessy, but I started drinking wine and champagne. It's easier to tour like that.

Madlib

We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3 Civilization would be galactic, like Star Wars. We are Type 0. We get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. But the question is: Will we make it? Will we make the transition from Type 0 to Type 1? It's not clear.

Michio Kaku

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