Top 1200 Wine Tasting Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity.

Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

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

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

A splash of red wine vinegar can pull things together like a pinch of salt.

When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

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

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

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

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

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

The way I like to cook is to have music going, usually jazz, and something in my hand, usually a glass of wine.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

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

I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

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

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."

I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

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

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

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

Baby, shut up and let me drink the wine from your fur tea cup.

People panic in the kitchen and they don't need to. The first thing to do is to open a nice bottle of wine and relax.

I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.

I don't eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner.

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!