A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

A hair divides what is false and true.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single breath; Enjoy this precious single breath, for the harvest of our whole lives is that same one breath.

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.

The moving finger writes and having writ moves on.

Heavn but the Vision of fulfilld Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

Ah make the most of what we yet may spend Before we too into the Dust descend.

It's too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. Theday on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

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

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

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.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Truth comes out in wine.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.