Wine Quotes
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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
William Shenstone
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I'm a winemaker and a wine collector, so I usually just drink wine.
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
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I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk.
Elaine Equi
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A meal without wine is like a day without sun
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.
Willa Cather
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I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things!
Andrew Zimmern
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
William Shakespeare
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The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
Hafez
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I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
Carol Alt
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I enjoyed retirement the right way... linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.
Craig Kilborn
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Wine fills the heart with courage.
Plato
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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
William Blake
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A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.
Alexis Lichine
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer
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How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking.
Alexis Lichine
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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
Ernest Dowson
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You'd better take that wine back. It's a little off.
Alan Alda
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Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.
George Ellwanger
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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.
William Butler Yeats
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I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.
David Steel
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A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe