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Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.
Author:
John Zimmerman
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Author:
Edward Young
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There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Author:
Coleman Young
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
Author:
William Yeats
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Language is wine upon the lips.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.
Author:
Grant Wood
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
Author:
Robin Williams
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The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
Author:
Robbie Williams
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I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
Author:
Walter Wager
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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.
Author:
Linda Vester
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Author:
Mark Twain
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All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
Author:
Charlie Trotter
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Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
Author:
Michael Tolkin
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We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
Author:
William Taylor
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As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Wine is bottled poetry.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.
Author:
Peter Steele
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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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.
Author:
Jean Savarin
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and said, 'don't come in here Bryan, you don't need to be seeing this!' and he said, 'ooh, you need some white wine.' He handed me a glass of wine.
Author:
Rebecca Romijn
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To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
Author:
Denise Richards
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
Author:
Oliver Reed
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
Author:
J. Powers
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Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
Author:
Colin Powell
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Author:
Plautus
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I am not old but mellow like good wine.
Author:
Stephen Phillips
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This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.
Author:
Itzhak Perlman
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Author:
Samuel Pepys
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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.
Author:
Amanda Pays
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.
Author:
Robert Parker, Jr.
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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
Author:
Ovid
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Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.
Author:
Annette O'Toole
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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
Author:
John Osborne
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.
Author:
Franco Nero
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Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
Author:
Frank Muir
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There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
Author:
Charles Morgan
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Author:
Thomas More
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I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
Author:
Esai Morales
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Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
Author:
Robert Mondavi
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I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Author:
Robert Mondavi
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My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.
Author:
Robert Mondavi
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Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.
Author:
Robert Mondavi
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I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
Author:
Robert Mondavi
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I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
Author:
Robert Mondavi
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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.
Author:
Keith Miller
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Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
Author:
Johnny Mercer
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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Author:
Herman Melville
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I do like my wine.
Author:
Christine McVie
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For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.
Author:
Karen McDougal
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
Author:
Karen McDougal
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A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
Author:
Kathy Mattea
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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.
Author:
Herbie Mann
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I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
Author:
Paul Lynde
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The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
Author:
Jay Leno
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I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.
Author:
Mario Lemieux
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.
Author:
Robin Leach
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I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
Author:
Nigella Lawson
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Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
Author:
Emeril Lagasse
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My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
Author:
Emeril Lagasse
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I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.
Author:
Emeril Lagasse
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Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
Author:
Steve Lacy
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Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.
Author:
William King
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Author:
Omar Khayyam
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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
Author:
Rose Kennedy
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I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.
Author:
Thomas Keller
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Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.
Author:
Thomas Keller
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People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
Author:
Rick Kaplan
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Author:
Carl Jung
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Author:
Pope John XXIII
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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
Author:
Penn Jillette
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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Author:
Douglas Jerrold
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
Author:
John Hurt
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
Author:
D. Hughley
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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Author:
Heraclitus
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I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
Author:
Ronnie Hawkins
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You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.
Author:
Mariska Hargitay
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I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.
Author:
Jane Grey
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.
Author:
Paul Gascoigne
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I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
Author:
Lesley Garrett
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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Author:
Eduardo Galeano
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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Author:
Marilyn French
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
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And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
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Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
Author:
John Fiske
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
Author:
M. Fisher
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
Author:
M. Fisher
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I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.
Author:
Joely Fisher
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
Author:
W. Fields
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Author:
Clifton Fadiman
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Author:
Clifton Fadiman
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Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.
Author:
Roy Evans
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Truth comes out in wine.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.
Author:
Santiago Durango
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They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
Author:
Ernest Dowson
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There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.
Author:
Rocco DiSpirito
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
Author:
Diogenes
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk.
Author:
Will Cook
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Author:
Charles Colton
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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Author:
Joan Collins
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
Author:
John Cleese
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I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.
Author:
Jill Clayburgh
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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.
Author:
Thomas Church
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
Author:
Emanuel Celler
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
Author:
Brooke Burke
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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
Author:
Basil Bunting
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To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
Author:
William Buckley, Jr.
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Author:
Elizabeth Browning
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.
Author:
Sherwood Boehlert
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Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
Author:
William Bligh
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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
Author:
John Blackie
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Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
Author:
John Betjeman
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Author:
Sarah Bernhardt
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Author:
Ludwig Beethoven
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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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.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
Author:
Gina Barreca
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Author:
Clement Attlee
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Author:
Athenaeus
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Author:
Aristophanes
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.
Author:
Jennifer Aniston
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My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
Author:
Loni Anderson
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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
Author:
Kevin Anderson
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Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
Author:
Beth Anderson
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I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
Author:
Eric Allman
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Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
Author:
Alcaeus
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Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
Author:
Aeschylus
