Wine Quotes - Page 36

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day

My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.

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.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

By making this wine 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.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained in it: but if the cask be staved in, the wine must perish.

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you. (Pause. . . shouts and claps) I want my blood in you. And every time you celebrate this rite, it is a reminder that you belong to me, and I belong to you. And he said, 'I will drink no more wine until I drink it new with you and the kingdom of God. Communion is the most romantic ordinance. Eh, Eh, Eh. (He laughs. Pause. . . the audience shouts and claps.) It is the most romantic ordinance between two lovers.

According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.