Wine quotes
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"Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
"How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all."
"The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth"
"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."
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"When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
"I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be"
"Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it."
"Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am."
"We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine."
"Your lips and mine, two sips of wine, memories are made of this."
"Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine."
"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
"In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk."
"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."
"Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life."
"Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer."
"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant."
"Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!"
"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle."
"Language is wine upon the lips."
