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41 " For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people. "
― Olivier Magny , Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure
42 " My cheeks still bulging with wine, I properly scoped out the room. Mom? Check. Dad? Check. Ari? Check? Rabbi Abrams, here to perform the ceremony to induct my brother as the latest member in the Brotherhood of David, the chosen demon hunters? Check. I spit the wine back into what I now realized was a silver chalice and handed it to the elderly bearded rabbi. “Carry on,” I told him. Then I threw up on his shoes. "
― Deborah Wilde , The Unlikeable Demon Hunter (Nava Katz #1)
43 " 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
44 " God alert!" Blackjack yelled. " It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. " The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot! "
45 " Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem’s cup was sure, so was his joylessness… to die is a fear, but to live is a fear, also. "
― Tanith Lee , Death's Master (Flat Earth, #2)
46 " Keith was just bringing the glass to his lips when Adrian said, " Mmm. O positive, my favorite." Keith sprayed out the wine he'd just drunk and promptly started coughing. I was relieved that none got on me. jill burst into giggles, and Clarence stared at his glass wonderingly." Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." " So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. " My mistake. "
47 " What is blood but the wine of life? "
― Vera Nazarian , Cobweb Bride (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, #1)
48 " The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course. "
― Peter S. Beagle
49 " Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. "
― Omar Khayyám
50 " For the wine of Clochemerle is at once exquisite and treacherous; it charms first the nose, then the palate, finally the entire man. Mark well that if it makes a man drunk it does not do so malignantly. It produces an enchanting light-heartedness, an intellectual sparkle which liberates the drinker from the constraints and conventions which bind him in his daily life. "
― Gabriel Chevallier ,
51 " Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. "
52 " Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. "
53 " For when the wine is in the wit is out. "
54 " Measure thy life by loss instead of gain Not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth. "
55 " Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the cup ... at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. "
56 " Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. "
57 " 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
58 " I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs. "
