W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?”
Source: Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration and Education by America's Wittiest Wine Critic
“Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.”
“Wine is just a conversation waiting to happen.”
Source: Kiss My Glass
“Wine is like beer except different.”
“Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.”
Source: Crimson Shore
“Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human”
“Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.”
“Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.”
“Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically”
“Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.”
Source: I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
“Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about”
“Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life”
“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.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.”
Source: The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition
“Wine is only sweet to happy men.”
Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
“Wine is poetry in a bottle.”
“Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.”
“Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'”
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
“Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.”
“Wine is the divine juice of September.”
“Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.”
“Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young”
“Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.”
“Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.”
Source: Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism
“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
“Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.”
“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.”
“Wine is to women as duct tape is to men, it fixes EVERYTHING!”
Source: Stripping Away the Insanity of Life and Parenthood!
“Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.”
“Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.”
“Wine isn’t strong enough. It’s blood I want.”
Source: A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.”
Source: Epicoene or The Silent Woman
“Wine knows that having passion for life is an art itself.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.”
“Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.”
“Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.”
Source: The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It
“Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.”
“Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.”
“Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.”
“Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. 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 presented.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Easyread Edition
“Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“Wine makes all things possible.”
“Wine makes all things possible. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, The Mystery Knight A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, A Game of Thrones Nothing burns like the cold. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, A Game of Thrones Laughter is poison to fear.”
“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”
“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”
“Wine makes every meal an occasion.”
“Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.”