#wines

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#mistake #mix #mixing #new #old

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all. ↗

— John Cleese

#anyone #appeal #experts #exquisite #like

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#bottles #breathed #did #drank #grapes

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. ↗

— Simone Weil

#consumed #district #fabrication #like #most

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner. ↗

— Toby Young

#always #belt #booked #column #coming

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#being #developed #either #good #got