W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.”
“Wine gives strength to weary men.”
“Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.”
“Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.”
“Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.”
Source: Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition
“Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.”
“Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.”
“Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.”
“Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.”
“Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.”
“Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.”
“Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.”
“Wine has drowned more than the sea.”
“Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.”
Source: Old Men Forget
“Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.”
Source: Old Men Forget
“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”
“Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.”
Source: The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes
“Wine?" I asked, ready to order.
"I’d rather have Sex on the Beach." He winked at me with a devilish grin.”
Source: Surrender Your Love
“Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.”
Source: Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.”
“Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.”
Source: The Piccolomini, Or the First Part of Wallenstein, a Drama in Five Acts. Translated from the German of Frederick Schiller by S. T. Coleridge
“Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.”
Source: Wine in peace and war
“Wine is a chemical symphony. and
The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really differentiate them. This differentiation cannot occur until we are thoroughly familiar with both. The same is true with wines.”
“Wine is a civilizing agent.”
Source: Any Number Can Play
“Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.”
Source: Life as I Find it: Essays, Sketches, and Tales, the Majority of which are Now Published in Book Form for the First Time
“Wine is a cunning wrestler.”
“Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“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.”
Source: Mastering the Art of French Cooking
“Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.”
“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.”
Source: Mythologies
“Wine is a peep-hole on a man.”
“Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.”
Source: Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like
“Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.”
“Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?”
“Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.”
“Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.”
“Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)
“Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.”
“Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
[Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]”
“Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.”
“Wine is better than sex and lasts longer.”
“Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“Wine is brought in coloured carafes. They glow aquamarine and sapphire, citrine and ruby, amethyst and topaz. Another course comes, with sugared violets and frozen dew.
Then come domes of glass, under which little silvery fish sit in a cloud of pale blue smoke.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Wine is connected to abundance.”
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.”
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
Source: The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.”
Source: The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel
“Wine is earth's answer to the sun.”