Quotes of: Red-wine Keyword

Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.

Polish

There are two kinds of Chinese: those who give wine and those who drink it.

Russian

Spilled wine is a sign of happiness, but break the bed and all will have long faces.

Spanish

The first marriage is a plate of honey, the second a glass of wine, and the third is a cup of poison.

Serbian

Joly: Marius, wake up! What's wrong today? You look as if you've seen a ghost. Grantaire: Some wine and say what's going on! Marius: A ghost, you say? A ghost, maybe. She was just like a ghost to me. One minute there, then she was gone. Grantaire: I ...

Les Misérables

Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displa...

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma...

The Dharma Bums

If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.

Chinese

Just as a medicine may not cure a serious illness, wine will certainly not dispel your grief.

Chinese

When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine.

Indian

Tasty fish have to swim three times: once in the water, then in butter, and finally in wine.

Polish

To a man wine is like water is to the boat; it can carry him or guzzle him up.

Thai

Drink a glass of wine after your soup and you will be stealing a ruble from the doctor.

Ukranian

It’s not really wine,” he said. “It’s Diet Coke. And if anyone serves you brown wine with a foamy head, send it back.

Endless Summer

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table, with Recipes

If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead.

Breathless

You drink wine by the glass, and I drink wine by the trashcan. Seriously, I’ll be by the trashcan if you need me.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

Slightly Wicked

This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not? ("The Wondersmith")

Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.

The Wine of Solitude

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...

Ray Bradbury