Wine Quotes - Page 31

Wine is like beer except different.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.

The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!

I love that red wine is good for you. Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like, Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants.

Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.