#wine

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine. ↗

— Billy Collins

#wine

I think it would dismay them to know what it takes to feed you. Not to mention that you could empty their cellars of beer and wine in a single night.' Eragon said. I would never, Saphira sniffed. Maybe in two nights. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#eragon #wine

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#fashion #glamorous #glass #hand #memory

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#alleviated #bath #glass #good #sleep

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. ↗

— Aristophanes

#clever #i #may #me #mind

Wine is bottled poetry. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#poetry #wine

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

#appears #authors #best #burn #drink

I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#smell #wine #age

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#existence #literal #literal sense #most #only

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. ↗

— Aeschylus

#form #mind #mirror #wine