W Quotes
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“Wine making is an artistic creation in which you deal with a variety of styles, colors, and inspiration therefore good wine, like good art, can evoke emotions, sensations and create an experience which leaves a lasting impression.”
“Wine o'clock was getting earlier every night”
Source: The Diary of a Single Parent Abroad
“wine! pizza! pasta!' V.I.”
Source: Deadlock
“Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.”
“Wine pricing is an art - like painting.”
“Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.”
“Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.”
Source: Goetz Von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand: A Drama in Five Acts
“Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.”
“Wine runs in your veins.”
Source: Her Own Legacy
“Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.”
“Wine should be pale like the lover’s face. Yellow, the color of suffering:
it should be mature and clear, bitter but sweetened with sugar.
-- Translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould”
Source: Divan of Khaqani
“Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff”
“Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.”
“Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.”
“Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.”
“Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, every one- from the commonest Liebfraumilch to the imperious Vueve Clicquot- a humble miracle. Everyday magic, Joe had called it. The transformation of base matter into the stuff of dreams. Layman's alchemy.
Take these six in Jay's cellar, for instance. The Specials. Not wines really meant for keeping, but he kept them all the same. For nostalgia's sake. For a special, yet-to-be-imagined occasion. Six bottles, each with its own small handwritten label and sealed with candle wax. Each had a cord of a different color knotted around its neck; raspberry red, elderflower green, blackberry blue, rose hip yellow, damson black. The last bottle was tied with a brown cord. Specials '75, said the label, the familiar writing faded to the color of old tea.”
Source: Blackberry Wine
“Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle”
“Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“Wine to me is all about sharing.”
Source: Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business
“Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.”
Source: Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business
“Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the greatest subject to study. No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.”
“Wine transforms moles into eagles.”
“Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Wine unlocks the breast.”
“Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.”
“Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.”
Source: A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church
“Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka.”
“Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit,
There is no cure 'gainst age but it”
“Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and
'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire;
Sit close and draw the table nigher;
Be merry and drink wine that is old,
A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.”
“Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.”
Source: Shadow Heir
“Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.”
“Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.”
“Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.”
“Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains,
And drives the mist of dullness from the brains,
The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies,
And views of gaiety and gladness rise.”
Source: Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales
“Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move”
“Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and part of the eighteenth, numbers of his journal
“Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.”
“Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.”
“Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.”
“Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.”
“Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!”
“Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.”
“Wing claws are effective weapons, but difficult to clean. Use them sparingly, unless you want to always be picking blood off of them. - The Malwatch”
“Wing twitches and ear switches mean nothing more than what you want them to. - The Malwatch”
“Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.”
Source: Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America
“Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.”