I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth baby. Rude!
Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.
When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.
in the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.
Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.
If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.
The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
What is new is pleasing and what is old is satisfying.
The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.
An old rat won't go into the trap.
The young may die, the old must.
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
An old broom knows the corners of the house.
An old cat likes young mice.
An old enemy never becomes a friend.
All old sayings have something in them.
As the old cock crows the young cock learns.
The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
An old chicken makes tasty soup.
Old oxen like soft grass.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
