#wine

This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue. ↗

— Walter Moers

#imagination

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise enow. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#companionship #life #love #paradise #poetry

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#intelligence

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#jealousy #reckoning #small-mindedness #tea #wine

Life's too short to drink cheap wine... ↗

— Cliff Hakim

#life

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it. ↗

— James Boswell

#wine #life

Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. ↗

— Ecclesiastes

#money #wine #life

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life #life-lessons #wine #life

As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life's hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#life #precious-life #wine #life

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#wine #age