in the abstract art of cooking,ingredients trump appliances,passion supersedes expertise,creativity triumphs over technique,spontaneity inspires invention,and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn’t it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit?

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

She’ll have to sleep off the effects of the fruit. We’ll likely be here another day because of your idiocy.”The other voice said something garbled and unintelligible. I was suddenly too sleepy and light-headed to...

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine,Since the world can in no way answer our craving,I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat.

I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a...

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, We take to smoke divine and wine.If breath of sun does belch its heat,we boil coffee...

By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room...

Of course, my Christmas is (so much more) gorgeous and romantic (than Germany’s)!! And unlike the rest of the world, we leave wine behind for Santa Claus!””So Santa-san is delivering gifts to children while driving...

She likes her wine white, and that’s how I like my clam chowder. So chuggable!

I know if I stopped hosting ‘Wine Library TV,’ we’d probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.

You have had me spinning for days, for I am drunk off the words that flow endlessly from your deep red lips that taste of wine.

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.

In Jackson’s private world, instead of cookies and milk, he substituted wine, vodka and bourbon,

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

I think coffee is the best drink known to man. I also think that wine is the best drink known to woman.

but does it have a winning taste? I’d hardly call silver a champion flavor. No, I’ll stick to my red wine.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren’t real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be...

Bring me the wine; tonight I drink all without dreaming you.

Why do you think Jesus used wine to symbolize his blood?…I think the Lord used wine for dozens of reasons, but one of the most convincing for me is the fact that crafting a glass...

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments – the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

A lot of people have been skiing Wine Tree and that area for a number of years so they feel like they’re getting slighted.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

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!

Wine is bottled poetry”- from The Night Circus

Most bad,” the host concluded. “If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest...

What’s foreign one can’t always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can’t endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

The moon splits open.We move through, waterbirds risingto look for another lake.Or say we are living in a love-ocean,where trust works to caulk our body-boat,to make it last a little while,until the inevitable shipwreck,the total...

The artist’s greatest creation beganthe night he washed his memory of his failuresrubbed opium on his lipsdrank the wine that women offered himand lay down and wept.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to, kissed slowly with.

The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and polite ridicule; forces which are not always available, and for whose successful operation much time will be...

What do you call a schooner in a wine glass? Port.

Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started ‘Wine Library TV.’ They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers...

Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang,Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang(He who loves not Wine, Women and SongRemains a fool his whole life long)

Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.

I am not sure I trust you.””You can trust me with your life, My King.””But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

… it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the...

Mr. Emerson watched, almost breathless, as she swirled the wine in her glass expertly, then lifted it so that she could examine it more closely in the candlelight. She brought the glass to her nose,...

During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.

If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine – well, sadly, then they were better off dead.