45 quotes found
“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”
“I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.”
“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”
“Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.”
“Beauty is often worse than wine intoxicating both the holder and beholder.”
“I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.”
“The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a ...”
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.”
“I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers,...”
“My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that wen...”
“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy...”
“Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
“No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.”
“Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”
“There is a devil in every berry of the grape.”
“Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the cup ... at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.”
“Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.”
“Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.”
“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!”
