Wine Quotations | Page 5

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut