Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wine Quotes, Character Quotes

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

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Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

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Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

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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.

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Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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