Wine Quotes

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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. — William Shenstone
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man — Bernard of Clairvaux
She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills — Homer
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,… — Anais Nin
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work… — Khalil Gibran
There's nothing better than online shopping in your PJ's with a glass of wine with the kids asleep! — Unknown Author
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it. — Robertson Davies
The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of… — Charles Gavan Duffy
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that… — Homer
Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache… — Louis L'Amour
Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink,… — Martin Luther
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine. — A J P Taylor
Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but… — Barbara Johnson
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth,… — Kaspar Hauser
James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat… — Unknown Author
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs… — Pietro Aretino
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of… — Pliny the Elder
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas) — Pliny the Elder
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas). — Pliny the Elder
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber. — Pliny the Elder
The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavors. The smells. They just… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes. — Michel Rolland
Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as… — Lola Montez
The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated.… — Mark Forsyth

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