Food and Wine

Friends are like wine, they get better with age. ~ unknown

If your heart is warm with happiness, you'll need a glass. If sorrow chills your heart, have two! ~ unknown

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. ~ Ernest Hemingway

It is of course, entirely possible to cook without using wine. It is also possible to wear suits and dresses made out of gunny sacks, but who wants to? ~ Morrison Wood

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne. ~ John Maynard Keynes

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. ~Paul Claudel

I find friendship to be like wine; raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food!! ~ unknown

Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. ~ unknown

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imaginationand bottling common sense. ~ Helen Rowland

God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all. ~ unknown

The First Duty of wine is to be Red…The Second is to be a Burgundy.~ Harry Waugh

Come, I am tasting the stars! ~ Dom Perignon

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. ~ Sir Alexander Fleming

From wine what sudden friendship springs! ~ John Gay

For a bad night, a mattress of wine. ~ Spanish Proverb

Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man. ~ Ambrose Bierce “The Devil’s Dictionary”

The soft extractive note of an aged cork being withdrawn has the true sound of a man opening his heart. ~ William S. Benwell

A hard drinker, being at the table, was offered grapes at dessert. " Thank you", said he, pushing the dish away from him, "but I am not

in the habit of taking my wine in pills." ~ 'The Physiology of Taste'

There is more philosophy in a bottle of wine than in all the volumes in a library. ~ Louis Pasteur

Wine is poetry in a bottle. ~ Clifton Fadiman

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. ~ Clifton Fadiman

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. ~ Clifton Fadiman

In wine there is truth. ~ Pliny The Elder (A.D.23-79) “Natural History”, Book XIV

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. ~ James Thurber, cartoon caption

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~ Robert Fripp

Compromises are for relationships, not wine. ~ Sir Robert Scott Caywood

What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch! W.C. Fields

Champagne with foaming whirls as white as Cleopatra’s melted pearls. ~ Lord Byron

It is my heartfelt wish that champagne spreads joy, peace and happiness.

~ Emile Moreau

Where there is no wine, there is no love. ~ Greek Proverb

I took one sip; closed my eyes, and every beautiful thing that I have ever known crowded into my memory. ~ Maurice Healy

Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. ~ Latin Proverb

Food

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~ Charlie Brown

The torch of love is lit in the kitchen. ~ French Proverb

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. ~ Kahlil Gibran

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. ~ Proverbs 15:15

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.~ Mother Teresa

One good thing about rutabagas is that they provide something for turnips to taste better than. ~ unknown

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life. ~ Dior Yamasaki

Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life. ~ R. Bristol 'Pizza Place Sign'

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ~ Aristotle