#wine

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child. ↗

— Donald Miller

#diapers #family #marriage #real-life #sunset

Когато отпиваше тъмната течност, мъжът разбираше, че жаждата на жената до него е попила много сол, затова и виното го хващаше. ↗

— Radostina A. Angelova

#men #thirst #wine #women #men

You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score." "A few," Salma allowed. "Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken. ↗

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

#aagen-s-joy #birthright #darkness #grief-in-chains #here-comes-the-sun

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#first #i #just #never #pour

Wine is a peep-hole on a man. ↗

— Alcaeus

#wine

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can. ↗

— Eric Allman

#cook #eat #food #going #good

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. ↗

— Gina Barreca

#buds #cheese #chocolate #forty #four

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#grapes #i #i do #i dream #include

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time. ↗

— Julia Child

#bit #everything #food #good #good time

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#indecent #maudlin #out #strength #through