I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer. — Sophocles
Short Beer And Wine Quotes
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous. — Chris Laidlaw
Everything will be okay in the end. If it`s not okay, than there is always beer — Granger Smith
There is truth in wine and children — Plato
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. — Henry Lawson
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer. — Clementine Paddleford
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. — Diogenes
Old wine and friends improve with age. — Italian Proverbs
On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Beer And Wine Image Quotes
Give a man a bottle of wine, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to make wine, he'll always have lots of friends
Food And Wine Quotes
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
In wine, there's truth.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach
Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods. — Maimonides
The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino
Beer Quotes
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! — Martin Luther
The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about. — Dean Martin
Coffee keeps me busy until it is acceptable to drink wine
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. — William Blake
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. — Queen Victoria
I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer. — Axl Rose
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
I don't think I've ever stepped into a gym - they won't let me smoke there. I just thank God Miller Lite isn't as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I'd look anorexic. — John Daly
You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised. — Gil Scott-Heron
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Wilhelm II
Drinking Wine Quotes
Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. — Omar Khayyam
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. — Salvador Dali
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Loren
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine. — Karl Marx
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
Spilling a glass of wine is the adult equivalent of letting of go a balloon.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. — Francis Bacon
Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host's Canary wine? — John Keats
This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place. — Anthony Bourdain
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. — Paulo Coelho
Drinking Beer Quotes
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. — Albert Einstein
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. — George Carlin
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war. — Frederick the Great
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carrie Nation
A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started. — Henny Youngman
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is no losing in jiu jitsu. You either win or you learn.
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach. — Rebecca Miller
Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is. — Billy Carter
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. — Upton Sinclair
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. — Samuel L. Jackson
Good Wine Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. — Thomas Aquinas
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — M. F. K. Fisher
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. — Washington Irving
Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something. — Maya Angelou
Wine is to women as duct tape is to men...it fixes everything.
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. — Denise Richards
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! — Hilaire Belloc
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle. — Joe Bob Briggs
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.' — Gerald Asher
Bottles Of Wine Quotes
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. — Kevin J. Anderson
Beer, It's the best damn drink in the world.
The man shows a pig leg; the woman shows a bottle of wine. — Vietnamese Proverbs
They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type. — Erik Spiekermann
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. — Frank Muir
Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge. — Hester Browne
You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one. — Len Evans
I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. — Virginia Madsen
I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other. — Gerald Asher
Wine Tasting Quotes
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting. — Andrea Illy
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! — Johann Sebastian Bach
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. — Charles Baudelaire
One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it. — Edward VII
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
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water. — Hakim Bey
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. — Charlotte Bronte
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be — Nina Simone
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. — Ludwig van Beethoven
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe. — John Hurt
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. — Bob Blumer
Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake. — Leon Adams
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. — J. F. Powers
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. — William Shakespeare
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? — Cardinal Richelieu
I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly. — Fiorello H. La Guardia
Women And Wine Quotes
Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. — Mikhail Bulgakov
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. — Naomi Watts
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. — Ernest Hemingway
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. — Michael Weatherly
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? — Martin Luther
Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women. — David Berlinski
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great — Benjamin Franklin
The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery. — Joseph Haydn
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic . — Charles Sanders Peirce
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. — Ernest Hemingway
Wine Bottle Quotes
New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles. — Heinz Guderian
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Fadiman
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Paul Fadiman
There is nearly universal consensus that we should prohibit selling and serving alcohol to minors because wine, beer, and spirits can be addictive and, when used to excess, ruinous for their health. Is excess sugar any different? — Daniel Lieberman
I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote,
marijuana, morphine and cocaine.
I never know sadness, but only a madness
that burns at the heart and the brain.
I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman,
angelic, demonic, divine.
Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
that brims with ambrosial wine. — Jack Parsons
Sophisticated foods are bittersweet wine, beer, coffee, chocolate. Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge. — Naval Ravikant
Religions change; beer and wine remain. — Hervey Allen
It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!' — Philip Connors
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. — Dave Barry
Good people drink good beer. — Hunter S. Thompson
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. — Miguel de Cervantes
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. — Babe Ruth
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old. — Martin Luther
Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around. — Ogden Nash
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. — John Milton
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. — Thomas Jefferson
He that drinks fast, pays slow.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
There can't be good living where there is not good drinking. — Benjamin Franklin
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking. — Benjamin Franklin
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. — Edmund Burke
You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish. — Grant Wood
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do. — Michael Jackson
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul. — Alexander Pope
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) — William Shakespeare
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. — Tom Waits
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour. — Sigrid Undset
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. — Sherwood Boehlert
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question. — George Eliot
Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around. — Ogden Nash
Some folks of cider make a rout
And cider's well enough no doubt
When better liquors fail;
But wine, that's richer, better still,
Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will)
Must yield to nappy ale — John Gay
Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment. — Martin Luther
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. — Dave Moulton
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist. — Desiderius Erasmus
Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer. — George Crabbe
Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends. — Cate Marvin
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing. — G. K. Chesterton
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
We've got wars. Imagine having more money, you could buy more beer. Have you been to Dublin in its heyday like in the boom heyday at like 4:00 in the morning on a Sunday or Saturday? It's like beyond New Orleans. It's like St. Patrick's Day every day. It's not good. I don't even like pubs anymore. I like going for a meal and having a bottle of wine. Be more gentle. — Gavin Friday
The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall? — Aaron Karo
I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer. — Adam Rogers
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika. — Jim Himes
It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad. — Stephen Beaumont
I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine. — B. B. King
Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard. — Charles Bukowski
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