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Quotes About Wine

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.
~ Moses ibn Ezra
Arise and pour pure wine into my cup, Pour moon beams into the dark night of my thought, That I may lead home the wanderer And imbue the idle looker-on with restless impatience; And advance hotly on a new quest And become known as the champion of a new spirit
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The gifts of God often come to you from the hands of other human beings, through God's servants. And so, Divine love also expresses itself between human beings. The sheikhs are the pourers of the wine and the dervish is the glass. Love is the wine. By the hand of the wine pourer, the glass—the dervish— is filled.
~ Unknown
He performed great miracles, like turning water into wine, thus making people to become spiritually drunken.
~ Unknown
New Revelation from Heaven: The sin is not in wine, but in drunkenness and loss of self-control or conscience. If you don't lose your awareness, which isn't guaranteed, then you're good to enjoy your wine in peace.
~ Unknown
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory ñ but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
~ Napoleon
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.
~ Napoleon
The liver, for example, the largest gland in the body, performs more than five hundred tasks, including processing glucose, protein, fats, and other compounds the body needs, generating the hemoglobin that is the soul of a red blood cell, and detoxifying the poisons we consume when we drink wine or eat those fibrous packets of natural toxins called vegetables.
~ Natalie Angier
Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
~ Unknown
Maybe she'd be better suited to a glittering palace, to a great and terrible queen whose eyes are as pale as diamonds, who drinks bloodred wine, and trails a cloak of dark glamour.
~ Nicola Griffith
Fursey, hostage to the king and tutor to the light of the world, was fond of good wine and long conversations at meat about the wrongs of the world and how to right them, and in the course of things the long conversations naturally made him more thirsty.
~ Nicola Griffith
The wine was warm now from being by the fire, its taste as rounded and familiar as the roof of my mouth. It would be very easy to just to finish this bottle, then start another one, sleep soundly, and get up in the morning and go about my business rebuilding the cabin, pretending to turn it into a home.
~ Nicola Griffith
She liked hearing James's stories. She liked his accent, hot and spicy as mulled win. Even his Latin; such a different Latin from Fursey's.
~ Nicola Griffith
When wine is in, truth is out, you know.
~ Unknown
For wine is the color of blood and the texture of tears, and you can drink it to warm your belly and piss it out to get rid of it. And forget the whole damned mess that is too much for any man to face.
~ Unknown
Beauty is God's wine, with which He recompenses the souls that love...
~ Olive Schreiner
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
~ Oliver Reed
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
~ Omar Khayyam
death was one thing but he couldn't bear the thought of letting good wine go to waste
~ Osamu Dazai
The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God living within the human spirit; it creates an inner invincibility.     If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God's strength.
~ Oswald Chambers
It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others. The power of imagination is what God gives a saint so that he can go beyond himself and be firmly placed into relationships he never before experienced.
~ Oswald Chambers
The burden God places squeezes the grapes and out comes the wine; most of us see the wine only.
~ Oswald Chambers
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
~ Ovid
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
~ Ovid