Wine Quotes

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

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.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

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?

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.