Top 1200 Bottles Of Wine Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

Even if we're just watching HGTV with a glass of wine, that's date night at my house.

I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine.

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I like to cook and have wine and listen to music and just chill with people that I love.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Kombucha is a great just-walked-in-the-door, sweet-tart wine replacement.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

I do make a really great bolognese, and the key is putting good 'ol wine in there.

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.

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

I love the vibe of Italy, drinking coffee and wine, and eating pasta and pizza there.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.

Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.