Wine Quotes
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She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.
Homer
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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
William Blake
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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
William Shenstone
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When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.
Alexis Lichine
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I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.
Rod Stewart
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If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity.
Sara Teasdale
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But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.
Ben Aaronovitch
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They the Persians are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.
Herodotus
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My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'
Simon Callow
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The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
Cecilia Bartoli
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My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
Lisa See
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While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.
Natalie MacLean
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SONG You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was mine. Oh, take the sandals off my feet, You know not what you do, For all my world is in your arms, My sun and stars are you.
Sara Teasdale
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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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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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I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
Esai Morales
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
Rumi
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
Catullus
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It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and-stripped of the ability to get drunk on it-wine was just sour grape juice.
Charles Stross
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Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking.
Alexis Lichine
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Joy is the best of wine.
George Eliot
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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