Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.
You don't want to seem too eager, too romantic - otherwise, it just looks a bit try-hard. But I do think that a first date should be intimate. So I'd choose a nice dinner somewhere cozy, not too crowded, with good wine.
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
What a life, without wine!
If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.
O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in me and the constant Eat the bread or drink the wine That tempt my weaker self. Let me rather starve, And let my heart parch with thirst, And let me die and perish, Ere I stretch my hand To a cup you did not fill, Or a bowl you did not bless.
This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.
When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
I love Champagne and I love to drink it out of any kind of beautiful glass.
The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.
[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!
Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.
You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.
Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
. . . Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.
The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.
For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.