Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.
The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?
Over the wine-dark sea.
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?
his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine
I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.
Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.