The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.
Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.
Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
The Persians are very fond of wine. . . It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.
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.
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
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.
Life is all about balance: sprinting hard and fast, breathing deep and slow. Working out with my coaches, playing with my kids. Eating whole foods for fuel, enjoying a glass of wine with friends.
I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.