Putting a patent on taro is like putting a copyright on Jesus, and every time you pray to him you have to pay me with bread and wine.
Putting a patent on taro is like putting a copyright on Jesus, and every time you pray to him you have to pay me with bread and wine.
After God, long live wine.
I got a linebacker, and I'm not going to mention his name, but I know he has never had a glass of wine in his life, ... The maitre d' comes by and shows him a bottle of wine, and the linebacker says, 'How much is that' He (the maitre d) says, 'Five hundred dollars.' He (the linebacker) says, 'I'll take two.'
While Foster's scale and efficiency sees us better placed than anyone from a production perspective, the (Australian) market is struggling to absorb the huge volumes of wine that are discounting and squeezing sales margins.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
An extremely competitive retail market is pushing extensive discounting and large volumes of wine at low prices, and New World competitors from South America and South Africa are also impacting on the market.
The average wine cellar can hold 1,500 to 2,000 bottles of wine, is temperature-controlled and is completely insulated.
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.
Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; Live to-day.
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
To hold a letter to the light --
Grown Tawny now, with time --
To con the faded syllables
That quickened us like Wine!
Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Alcoholic beverages contain significant amounts of calories. A 12-ounce can of beer for example contains about 150 calories. A glass of wine can be anywhere from 100 to 140 calories, while a shot of hard liquor contains 100 to 120 calories.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
It's really going to be on a case-by-case basis. I suppose there is that danger of diluting the overall message and creating some confusion. From where I sit, we certainly are placing a priority on branding Washington state as the wine region.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Wine is enjoying this wonderful moment of very favorable attitudes.
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.
Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
My flask of wine was ruby red
And swift I ran my sweet to see;
With eyes that snapped delight I said:
"How mad with love a lad can be!
Music's the cordial of a troubled breast The softest remedy that grief can find The gentle spell that charms our care to rest And calms the ruffled passions of the mind. Music does all our joys refine, And gives the relish to our wine.
Good operating systems are a lot like good wine. New is not necessarily good. ... The longer you've been testing it, the longer you've been applying it in applications, the better it gets.
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.
You know how in Connecticut they store tobacco in long, white barns to cure That's what it looked like. They had thousands of shells stored like they were in wine racks.
We haven't really changed anything with the Riesling since we started making it in 1980 -- always aiming for an off-dry style with about 1.5 percent residual sugar, which is tart enough to give you that pleasing sweet-and-sour tang that goes so well with spicy foods, yet rich enough to stand alone as a sipping wine.
Most airlines will take the wine on board the aircraft and taste it, because red wine in particular can taste quite different when drunk in-flight compared to on the ground.
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
The whole butt, man; my cellar is in a rock by
th' seaside, where my wine is hid.
I told the company that I really needed to acquaint myself with the wines of Europe. Alex was old enough to take notice of things, and he showed a real interest in the wine business, even at that time.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Never spare the Parson's wine, nor Baker's Pudding.
I can generally tell what a guy is saying at home from what his spouse says after a glass of wine or three,
You can look in the classifieds in the back of any wine magazine, and there will be ads for wine appraisers,
What Sir Alex said cost him a bottle of wine. I had a nice bottle of red to give him for his birthday, but after what he said he can sod off.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Should Love amid
The wreaths be hid
That Joy, the enchanter, brings us,
No danger fear,
While wine is near --
We'll drown him if he stings us.
Mexicans are educating themselves and becoming serious consumers of wine, and sommeliers in Mexico City are starting to take notice,
The way we drink wine is changing fast and consumers of today want smooth, powerful, high alcohol wines, often to be enjoyed without food. Now, the producers are handed the tools to keep up with consumers.
Christmas Carol The kings they came from out the south, All dressed in ermine fine They bore Him gold and chrysoprase, And gifts of precious wine. The shepherds came from out the north, Their coats were brown and old They brought Him little new-born lambs They had not any gold. The wise men came from out the east, And they were wrapped in white The star that led them all the way Did glorify the night. The angels came from heaven high, And they were clad with wings And lo, they brought a joyful song The host of heaven sings. The kings they knocked upon the door, The wise men entered in, The shepherds followed after them To hear the song begin. The angels sang through all the night Until the rising sun, But little Jesus fell asleep Before the song was done.
I think the big question is how much more expensive it will make the wine. The real test of it is once it's produced and on the shelf, what are people willing to pay
After-dinner talk; Across the walnuts and the wine.
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
April Wine were that early '70s band. I always liked those early '70s Canadian rock bands, 'cause they always had this chunky, meaty sound.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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