Top 1200 Great Wine Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

To have a great player like Neymar at PSG would be a great honour. He's a phenomenal player, and to have great player is a great thing for the team.

I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

Glogg is a Scandinavian mulled wine, sweetened with honey, almonds, raisins and spices. Its name suits its purpose so beautifully.

I really like the melody "Red Wine Is Good For My Heart" and people respond to it. I decided to put it on the album.

Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

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.

I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice.

Traitor!" Hera shouted. "You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much less rule the world.

Those are my favorite dates, when we can just cook together and share a bottle of wine and cozy up next to the fire.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

I'm just as content sitting on the floor playing Barbies with my kids as I am having a glass of wine with my girlfriends.

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

I'm really big on day dates. If you go for a stroll, have a picnic or lunch with a glass of wine - it doesn't get better than that.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

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.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago,' he told Branson, 'that the French drink more red wine than the English but live longer. The Japanese eat more fish than the English but drink less wine and live longer. The Germans eat more red meat than the English, and drink more beer and they live longer too. You know the moral of this story? 'No' 'It's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking English that kills you.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

I had to give up a lot of foods that I'm accustomed to eating: dairy products, beer, wine, spicy food.

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

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

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.