Wine Quotes - Page 18

• Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fire, Giving, Alcohol

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• It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Fire, Water

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• If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Poetry, Gauges

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Wise, Drinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Epic, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Men, Land

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people”

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• THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.

  Max Frisch

  Death, Attitude, America

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• Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

  Charles Dickens

  Paris, Six, Harsh

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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• The art of medicine in the season lies:
  Wine given in season oft will benefit,
  Which out of season injures.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Healing

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• Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
  Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
  Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

  Ovid

  Apples, Giving, Earth

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• Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Afterlife, Order, Humanity

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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• Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

  George Jean Nathan

  Dinner, Theater

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• now
  I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
  Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
  When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Ephesians, Sound

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.143, Hayes Barton Press

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• Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.

  Peter Jackson

  Taken, Two, Islands

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• Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Nature, Grapes

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• Not God
  with wine,
  nor death,
  nor hate for a cry,
  but God with a song

  Hilda Doolittle

  God, Song, Hate

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.466, New Directions Publishing

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• It seems that researchers at Colorado University say wine may help people lose weight. It's not the wine directly that causes the weight loss, it's all the walking around you do trying to find your car.

  Jay Leno

  Loss, People, Car

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• Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strausswaltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.

  Laurence Stallings

  Home, Kissing, Men

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• I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

  Deep Roy

  Collecting, Enjoy, Great Food

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• My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'

  Warren Hutcherson

  Mother, Nice, Church

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• You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Firsts, Knows, Ifs

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• Music and Wine are one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Musician

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

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• The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

  Charles Babbage

  Men, Giving, Office

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Men, Average

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• Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friedrich Schiller (1800). “The Piccolomini, Or the First Part of Wallenstein, a Drama in Five Acts. Translated from the German of Frederick Schiller by S. T. Coleridge”, p.121

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