Glasses Quotes - Page 27

• Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Book, Player, Sight

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• A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

  Walter Scott

  Wine, Poor, Mortality

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.195, e-artnow

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• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

  Kingsley Amis

  Strong, Writing, Wine

  "Toast of the town" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

  Paul Claudel

  Wine, Champagne Drinking, Gentleman

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• I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.

  Fernand Point

  Wine, Wind, Two

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• I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Fancy, Melancholy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.99, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I love Champagne and I love to drink it out of any kind of beautiful glass.

  Martha Stewart

  Beautiful, Wine, Drinking Champagne

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• To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine, Obscure, Claims

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• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Wine, Dust, Color

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• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

  Horace

  Art, Wine, Secret

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• A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Men, Hearing

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• The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

  Guy de Maupassant

  Wine, Half, Guests

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• Each individual cat got up and did his thing. It wasn't like today where they come down and put down some nice linoleum so you don't get burnt up. I mean, we used to b-boy right in the middle of the park with broken glass everywhere! And you'd get up and you'd be all scratched and burised and bleeding and you would be ready to go right back in the circle. You'd just wipe the glass off your elbows and go right back in.

  Jazzy Jay

  Nice, Mean, Cat

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• Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

  Pete Townshend

  Moon, Doors, Keys

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• There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
  Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Art, Lovely

  Sonnet 3

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• Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.

  Dan Johnson

  People, House, Remember

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• If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

  Ken Robinson

  Fitness, Workout, Jobs

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• Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Summer, Pain

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865) chorus 'Before the beginning of years' st. 7

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• I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Beautiful, Pain

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• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

  Charles Bowers

  Change, Ideas, People

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• All babies look like Renée Zellweger pushed against a glass window.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Looks, Window

  Joan Rivers: the best of her career in clips and quotes" by Lilah Raptopoulos, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2014.

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• It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Expression, America, Profound

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1966). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Fine Words, Language

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