No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
Wine makes every meal an occasion.
In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me. My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.
Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys. '. . . But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine. ' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.
Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.
I don't need to live my art and almost die to understand my heroines. I want to love my sons, live quietly, eat good food, have meaningful friendships in and out of work and have a very large wine collection.
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Wherever wine grapes are grown, it is beautiful.