wine quotes

• 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. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/wine/inspires/wine]
• Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. (Martin Luther) [wine/women/fool/life]
• If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why. (Henry Aldrich) [think//wine/being]
• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Francis Bacon) [wine//trust]
• To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience. (Roland Barthes) [soul & body/wine/more/more]
• 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 caf to the speech at a formal dinner. (Roland Barthes) [wine/society/basis/]
• Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. (Henry Ward Beecher) [wine/human/life/life]
• Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. (Charlotte Bronte) [time/wine]
• I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. (Emily Bronte) [life//wine/water]
• I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. (Robert Burton) [human/wine/women/people]
• Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [willpower/wine]
• Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [wine/beer//think]
• 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. (Charles Caleb Colton) [power/willpower/wine/power]
• It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. (Joseph Conrad) [wine]
• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. (Charles Dickens) [wine]
• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. (Henry Fielding) [wine]
• Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. (Thomas Fuller) [wine/more/men]
• The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. (Eric Hoffer) [wine/water]
• Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. (Samuel Johnson) [wine/knowledge/company/motion]
• Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. (Samuel Johnson) [wine/more/wine/mistake]
• Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long. (Martin Luther) [women/wine/fool/life]
• Lords are lordliest in their wine. (John Milton) [wine]
• And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. (John Milton) [night/effrontery/wine]
• Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot. (Ogden Nash) [wine/needs/people/look]
• 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. (Samuel Pepys) [god/wine/find/mind]
• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. (William Shakespeare) [spirit/wine]
• The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. (Henry David Thoreau) [government/wine]
• I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. (Henry David Thoreau) [food/wine/honesty/truth]
• My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain) [books/water/wine/water]
• I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry. (Esai Morales) [wine/wine]
• David tends to use actors again and again. The first thing we had in common was drinking red wine. During Blue Velvet we'd go out and share wine quite a lot. (Kyle MacLachlan) [actors/thing/wine/share]

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