Drinking Wine Quotes

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

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.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

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.

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.

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

The older I get, the better I was.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

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.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

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.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.

Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.

There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

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.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.