Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Running Quotes, Wine Quotes

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

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I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as “nigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.” But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer imiverse, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

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A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

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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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By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

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now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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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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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

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When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

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Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

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