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"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."
"Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work."
"I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul. A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly."
"Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed.""
"As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him."
"Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure."
"Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it."
"Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living."
"Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes."
"No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world."
"Life is good, but Wine is better."
"It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies."
"She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom."
"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."
"One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all."
"I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?"
"There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song."
"Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them."
"Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?"
"Everything's better with some wine in the belly."
