Aphrodisiac Quote by Norman Douglas Download Open image “Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.” — Norman Douglas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphrodisiac Inspirational Mating Precarious Wine
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it.… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . .… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that’s what really sums up style… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image