Wine Quotes
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Love is the wine of existence.
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.
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Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.
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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.
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Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.
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A bottle of wine was good company.
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
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I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.
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Joy is the best of wine.
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So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.
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We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
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One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.
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It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.
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Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.
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Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
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I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.
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I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, 'Why didn't I go to bed at 11?' I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.
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The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.
