Quotes on Wine

His element is so fine _x000D_ _x000D_ Being sharpened by his death, _x000D_ _x000D_ To drink from the wine-breath _x000D_ _x000D_ While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

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.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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.

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.