Wine Quotes - Page 48

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

Life is good, but Wine is better.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.