Cellar Quotes
84 quotes by 76 authors
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight…
— David Bailey
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
— Samuel Butler
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the…
— Sam Abell
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A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
— Andre Simon
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar…
— Robert Benchley
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I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
— Samuel Rutherford
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp...
— James Russell Lowell
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
— C.S. Lewis
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits…
— George Saintsbury
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A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a…
— Frank J. Prial
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And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the…
— Stephen King
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When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.
— P.B. Kerr
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On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These Cellar Quotes
76 authors contributed a total of 84 Cellar Quotes, led by these top contributors: