90 Cellar Quotes
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Famous Cellar Quotes
I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar. — Rodney Dangerfield
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. — Charles Dickens
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson
The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell. — Omar Khayyam
Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin! — Julia Child
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. — Hafez
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. — Jill Shalvis
In wine, there's truth. — Pliny The Elder
I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere. — Young Jeezy
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
You can’t have a full wine barrel and a drunk wife. — Italian Proverbs
A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins. — Georg Riedel
Wine is bottled poetry. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Good wine must drink together with a good friend. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Short Cellar Quotes
- The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino
- The older I get, the better I was. — Van Dyke Parks
- Either give me more wine or leave me alone. — Rumi
- Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. — Robert Mondavi
- Good wine is a necessity of life for me. — Thomas Jefferson
- Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. — Ernest Hemingway
- Wine makes every meal an occasion. — Andre Simon
- Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. — Julia Cameron
- They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. — Henry David Thoreau
- How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. — John Lubbock
Wine Cellar Quotes
When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. — Jacques Pepin
It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up. — Jay McInerney
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. — Samuel Butler
Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles. — Serena Sutcliffe
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book) — George Saintsbury
A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers. — Frank J. Prial
Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. — Unknown
The Cellar Quotes
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. — Dorothea Dix
To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big. — Aristotle Onassis
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars! — Alexander Woollcott
If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to the camera because yes you're communicating to the people at home using the studio audience that's right in front of you as a guide for that. — John Mulaney
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity. — Sam Ervin
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. — Arthur Miller
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything. — E. B. White
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful. — Henry Ward Beecher
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. — Edvard Munch
The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People Writing About Cellar
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Rodney Dangerfield |
365 | 4569 |
 Samuel Rutherford |
115 | 684 |
 Charles Dickens |
1001 | 11529 |
 Emily Dickinson |
520 | 5008 |
 Omar Khayyam |
96 | 8289 |
 Julia Child |
170 | 1656 |
More Cellar Quotes
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." — Samuel Eliot Morison
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. — Joel Salatin
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar. — Rose Wilder Lane
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. — Robert A. Heinlein
I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. — Andrew Wyeth
When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun. — Emo Philips
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate. — Agnes Macphail
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. — Ray Bradbury
Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings. — Pope Benedict XVI
Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My perfect night would be going out to an awesome restaurant, then heading over to the Comedy Cellar to hang out with other comics, drinking beers and making fun of each other. — Anthony Jeselnik
We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. — Warren Farrell
But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter? — Anne Bosworth Greene
Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else. — Katherine Anne Porter
If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed. — William Henry Maule
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