Wine Quotes - 4
Roman playwright of the Old Latin period
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Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Bible (NewTestament)— Timothy 5:23.
In the house of words was a table of colors. They offered themselves in great fountains and each poet took the color he needed: lemon yellow or sun yellow, ocean blue or smoke blue, crimson red, blood red, wine red.
Eduardo Galeano— 1991The Book of Embraces.
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
john gay— 1738 Fables,'The Squire and His Cur', l.4.
And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
john milton— 1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.500-2.
'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels By blood or ink; 'tis sweet to put an end To strife; 'tis sometimes sweet to have our quarrels, Particularly with a tiresome friend; Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels; Dear is the helpless creature we defend Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot.
Rochdale— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto1, stanza126.
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things, — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
alfonso x of castile— As quoted in Apothegms (1624) by Francis Bacon, 97.
Let's pour wine in coffee cups and drive around the neighborhoodAnd shine the headlights on houses until all the news is good.
st. vincent— "The Neighbors"
... but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.
Stephen Fry— Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless".
By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.
saki— "The Chaplet"
When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine. See cry'd they, while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, the bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.
— Aaron Hill, translation of Crashaw's Latin lines. Works, Volume III; O. 241. (Ed. 1754). See also Vida, Christiad, Book III. 9984, and, Book II. 431. Also Hymn of Andrew, Vel Hydriis plenis Æqua
With all this bulk there's nothing lost in Og, For every inch that is not fool is rogue:;: A monstrous mass of fuul corrupted matter, As all the devils had spew'd to make the baiter. When wine has given him courage to blaspheme, He curses God, but God before curst him:;; And, if man could have reason, none has more. That made his paunch so rich, and him so poor.
john dryden— Pt. II line 462 - 469.
Everything about Florence seems to be coloured with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
Henry James— Letter to Henry James Sr. (26 October 1869)
This sad reality, To know it couldn't be, That's Portugal and love in April! The music and the wine convinced me you were mine, But it was just the spring fooling me.
jimmy kennedy— Song April in Portugal
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur— The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs
It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
j. r. r. tolkien— No. 163: On his discovery of Finnish language, in a letter to W. H. Auden in 1955
Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
— Proverbs 31:6-7, New International Version. (Many translations have "strong drink" rather than "beer".)
Few things surpass old wine, and they may preach who please, the more because they preach in vain. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 178.
Jolly nose! there are fools who say drink hurts the sight, Such dullards know nothing about it; 'Tis better with wine to extinguish the light Than live always in darkness without it.
— Paraphrase of Olivier Basselin's Vaux-devire. Quoted by Ainsworth in Jack Sheppard, Volume I, p. 213.
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson— Ben Jonson, The Forest, To Celia. See also Philostratus, from whom it was taken.
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And clipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
Francis Thompson— Francis Thompson, The Poppy.
One should not be amazed ... that this Ganges is really Power , for is she not the Supreme Shakti of the Eternal Shiva, taken in the form of water? This Ganges, filled with the sweet wine of compassion , was sent out for the salvation of the world by Shiva, the Lord of the Lords. Good people should not think this Triple-Pathed River to be like the thousand other earthly rivers, filled with water.
— Ganga Mahatmay, Kashi Khanda, p.48 (Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India (3 February 2008)])
Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, brimming with silence and the stars; while Earth, bathed in this holy light, is seen without its scars.
Louis Untermeyer— Louis Untermeyer, The Wine of Night.
And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 500.
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
— Book XIV, sec. 141. (Naturalis Historia)
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.
— XIII, 47. (Deipnosophistae (2nd century))
Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart .
— Frag. 384, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine; the bread being changed ( transsubstantiatio ) by divine power into the body, and the wine into the blood, so that to realize the mystery of unity we may receive of Him what He has received of us. And this sacrament no one can effect except the priest who has been duly ordained in accordance with the keys of the Church, which Jesus Christ Himself gave to the Apostles and their successors.
— The Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215, Canon 1, asserting the dogma of transubstantiation
wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
william wycherley— 1675 The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.
wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh.
William Butler Yeats— A Drinking Song
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
omar khayyám— Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), St. 12. FitzGerald's translation.
