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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.


Ludwig van Beethoven

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OMAR KHAYYáM It is better to be drunken with your dreams,than to be drunken with wine.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, / And fires us / With courage, love and joy. / Women and win...
JOHN GAY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on d...
VICTORIA FINLAY I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when i...
JANE GREY And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine...
BIBLE This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: / So shall thy b...
BIBLE I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - ...
ROBERT MONDAVI But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way...
C.S. LEWIS Wine books flow from printing presses like water from broken spigots.
HOWARD G. GOLDBERG No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ard...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
GEORGE HERBERT Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
GEORGE HERBERT The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
GEORGE HERBERT From wine what sudden friendship springs?
JOHN GAY A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
IAN FLEMING Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laerti...
LAERTIUS DIOGENES "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."
CHARLES DICKENS The conscious water saw its God and blushed. - Richard Crashaw,
RICHARD CRASHAW Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine...
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, An...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven, And all the passengers ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring fo...
BIBLE Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth it...
BIBLE Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
BIBLE Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
BIBLE Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie.
W.A. BELLAMY Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good; "Let him drink...
ANONYMOUS John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, ...
ROBERT BURNS I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts...
BIBLE I hang no ivie out to sell my wine; The nectar of good wits will sell itself.
ROBERT ALLOTT (ALLOT) There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells...
GARY VAYNERCHUK Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought...
GARY VAYNERCHUK What glasses for which wine, which knife and fork -- that was what frightened them the most.
DIANA MATHER Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be...
DANIEL BOR Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.
ALEXANDER POPE To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable!
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN There's good music, and it's a great day to hang out and drink a bottle of wine. This truly is a spe...
GEORGIE BREMNER One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
OVID Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
AMIT KALANTRI When the average wine bottle on a list costs more than your dinner, when you have to decide between ...
LANCE CUTLER A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything
BIBLE The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are contin...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and ...
INDONESIA123 The wines were great, and better by the minute, even as the drinkers softened. Just as wines opened ...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for re...
JOE BASTIANICH I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
KENNY LOGGINS The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them q...
MARK ARMSTRONG Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I ...
RICK RIORDAN I go to a lot of wine dinners and people are surprised that our wine sells for $25. They're used to ...
DAVE PHILLIPS Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. I have eyewitnesses saying that Michael Jackson regularly pours white wine into soda cans. That's 'J...
MAUREEN ORTH Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
ROBERT FRIPP Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
ROBERT FRIPP Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence
ROBERT FRIPP I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights b...
NADIA ALI Wine makes all things possible.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This winter is a blessing for the wine and grape growing industry.
NORM BEAL Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her ple...
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TOM ARAYA We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY The temptation is to pick the eyes out of the wines to make a great wine, a trophy-winning wine,
DAVID MORRIS ...take about ten of your chosen tablet or capsules with as large a drink of spirits or wine as you ...
DEREK HUMPHRY Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We anticipate it will be a setting which might bring faculty, staff and students together for conver...
AMY CAMPBELL I am falser than vows made in wine
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I...
JOHN KEATS The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gen...
HOMER On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen ye...
ATHENAEUS I am not old but mellow like good wine.
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DAVE NABITY It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Jeremy...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
GARY VAYNERCHUK There is nothing about making wine kosher that needs to be different than making any other wine -- e...
JEFF MORGAN My gender is who I am. It's how I see the world. But it's not something I consciously think about wh...
JANET WEISS Taste Washington is one of the largest wine events in the nation highlighting a single wine region, ...
ROBIN POLLARD Men, I feel are like wine - before buying, a real connoisseur takes a small sip, and spits them out
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CHRIS RANDALL When people come up on Highway 94 . . . they can come out and sample wine and purchase wine. Event...
JANET WRIGHT You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them...
JONATHAN CAIN Wine is like music, ... If you're not listening, it doesn't matter what's playing on the stereo.
KAREN MACNEIL I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I love...
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LUDWIG BORNE If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Debate is the death of conversation.
EMIL LUDWIG Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
LUDWIG BORNE If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the ...
LUDWIG ERHARD It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my though...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality,...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar o...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relati...
EMIL LUDWIG Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off an...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strang...
EMIL LUDWIG Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
LUDWIG BORNE Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any ph...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A confession has to be part of your new life.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
LUDWIG BEMELMANS Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one ph...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG