Tuesday, November 26, 2013

"I LOVE WINE!" You can quote me an that...

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing. ~ Ernest Hemingway

A man not old, but mellow, like good wine. ~ Stephen Phillips

Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly. ~ W.E.P. French

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. ~ Benjamin Franklin

It is well to remember that there are 5 reasons for drinking wine: the arrival of a friend, one’s present to future thirst, the excellence of the wine or any other reason. ~ Latin Proverb

Wine is bottled poetry. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. ~ Andre Simon

The good talk that is inseparable from a wine dinner is even more important than the wines that are being served. Never bring up your better bottles if you are entertaining a man who cannot talk. Keep your treasures for a night when those few who are nearest to your heart can gather round your table, free from care, with latchkeys in their pockets and no last train to catch." ~ Maurice Healy

What though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine. ~ Thomas Moore

Wine is a food. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wine improves with age - I like it the older I get. ~ Anonymous

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth! ~ Gustav Mahler

By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. ~ Paul Coelho

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. ~ WC Fields

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. ~ John Keats

Either give me more wine or leave me alone. ~ Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. ~ Ernest Hemingway

I am not sure I trust you. You can trust me with your life, My King. But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back. ~ Meagan Whalen Turner

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

Beer is made by men, wine by God. ~ Martin Luther

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. ~ Louis Pasteur

What wine goes with Captain Crunch? ~ George Carlin

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. ~ George Gordon Bryon

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh… ~ W.B. Yates

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. ~ Mark Twain

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. ~ Andre Simon

 Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human. ~ Paul Tillich

In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. ~ Bob Blumer

Life's too short to drink cheap wine... ~ Cliff Hakim

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. ~ Marty Rubin

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books. ~ Stephen Fry

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserable wine lover. ~ Clifton Fadiman

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquefied beefsteak. ~ James Joyce

Great wine works wonders and is itself one. ~ Edward Steinberg

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. ~ Clifton Fadiman

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long. ~ Anonymous

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. ~ James Branch Cabell

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. ~ Proverbs 31 67

At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases. The inventor of wine is called Liber, not from the license which he gives to our tongues but because he liberates the mind from the bondage of cares and emancipates it, animates it and renders it more daring in all that it attempts. ~  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. ~ Thomas Love Peacock

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism. ~ Katherine Cole

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves. ~ Michael Foley

I prefer my water in wine form. ~ P.C. Cast

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly. ~ Sandra Byrd

People of balance age as gracefully as wines of balance. ~ John Jordan

The first miracle Jesus performed was instant wine making. No wonder people loved Him! He probably received a bunch of wedding invitations after that one. ~ Dillon Burroughs

Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there's always red wine. ~ Rachael Bermingham

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. ~ Basil Bunting

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. ~ Pope John Paul XXIII

If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

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