Wine Quotes - Page 75

If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form.

Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Wine unlocks the breast.

Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

Love is the wine of existence.

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.