Top 1200 Wine Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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."

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.

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.

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

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

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

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

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.

Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

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.

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.

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.

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

Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to it entirely differently.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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

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

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

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.

...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.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.'

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

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.

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?

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

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

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Slipcovers are great because they can be laundered after those all-too-frequent sippy cup and red wine incidents.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

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

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.

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

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