Vineyards Quotes

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

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

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

The church is God's vineyard.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking

Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

The very best of vineyards is the cellar