The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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.
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
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 everyone around them.
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form.
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
I'm on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That's a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver's license.
A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine. . . . If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.
A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of not so plenty we will enjoy a bottle that is more reasonable. This tome is a must-read for wine lovers as well as the trade.
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage
In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.