I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.
Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility
He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
There's wisdom in wine.
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout? And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?
Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you. " "Why? Was kissing me that bad?" A devil-solf whisper. "No sweetheart. It was that good.
Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine.
There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.
That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. "Very nice," said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. "I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle. " "It's cheap, that's the main thing.
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.
Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.
I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.